I never thought I'd see the day when another civil war would be even a dim possibiity, but I'm beginning to visualize it.
Who would fight whom?......is the question, and how?...and where? We've got radical La Mecha "Aztlan" separatists squealing about how our entire southwest rightfully belongs to them. What % of immigrants (legal and illegal) who subscribe to this fantasy is not known to me.
Next, we've got 6+ million Muslims, from 600,000 in the 1960's. How many of them are secretly "sleeping," waiting to strike?
I can feel and see the violent tensions everywhere, but I can't see what this possible coming 2nd American civil war would look like, or where it would be fought.
Can you?
(Perhaps it would begin "On The Streets of San Francisco.")
Char
Excellent questions! Would the rest of the world just step back, watch and wait? It never occurred to me til you asked the question that an internal struggle might grow to include other nations. Under the auspices of the U.N. maybe???
FGS
I don't see the Left starting a civil war. The most violently Marxist of them are students, and they have neither the training, the equipment, the discipline, the tactics, the inclination, nor the *stones* to attempt anything larger than a riot (there's a subtle movie reference in here for you war movie fans like me). If we consider the traditional case, a leftist force capable of waging a civil war with any realistic chance of winning would require tens, nay, hundreds of thousands of combatants, with cohesive tactics, strategy, equipment, and deployment. We're talking about leftists and anarchists here—it simply isn't going to happen. They might cause trouble in several counties, but National Guard and law enforcement would get a handle on them eventually. Even if you added in a contingent of angry minorities (a'la the LA riots), I still don't see a critical mass, or anything close.
There is the guerilla war option, which I submit would be better in line with the mindset of leftists in our country, but the problems are equally insurmountable. They could assassinate as many people as they wished and it wouldn't topple our government. If anything, after the first week every cop and FBI agent would be after them like bears after honey. Even assuming a well-planned cohesive guerilla strategy, I see no way these people could ever topple our government and install their Utopian state.
In the end, though, there is the one overriding fact from which the Left cannot escape: ultimately they are cowards and won't ever attempt it. Civil disobedience doesn't risk jail time—an attempt at toppling our government risks both life and freedom.
They're all talk and no action. Pay their hotheads no mind—just watch your backs at their "rallies for peace".
I think we'll find out if and when our economy tanks, and the social heat is really cranked up under our urban pressure cookers.
Ans: All of them.