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I have asked this question of several retired LEOs that I know. They, for reasons only known to themselves, have not answered. I have told them on many different occasions that I believe certain state and federal politicians are actively courting a civil war. Why, because they think they can win it. Wring, wrong, wrong.

All the crowned heads of Europe thought the same way in August of 1914 when the assassination of Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie plunged all of Europe into World War I. Most of those responsible for the war were either out of power or dead four years later, along with 26 million other people.

The score in 1918 was: 1) Austro-Hungarian Empire gone and Hapsburg dynasty dethroned; 2) Ottoman Empire gone and a civil war brewing in Turkey; 2) Germany defeated and the Kaiser had abdicated the throne; 4) Russia wracked by civil war and the Tsar and Royal Family executed; 5) Italy bankrupted; 6) France bankruped and an entire generation of Frenchmen killed; 7) Britain lost the flower of its generation of young men and was bankrupted; 8) the might of the United States won the Great War, but America retreated into isolationism after war’s end.

The point is that all the best and brightest of the elite political class were predicting victory for their side and the boys would be home by Christmas of 1914. A great majority of those best and brightest souls were dead by Christmas 1918.

All our political best and brightest should remember that once the specter of civil war is loosed upon the land, all bets are off as to the victors. Death, suffering, and destruction are certain and no one can divine the outcome.