“Everything depends on your definitions of “civil war”
I was thinking specifically of a shooting war.
If we want to broaden it to something less than that, then we are certainly in a cold civil war. Or a simmering civil war.
I dunno your age, but the decade from say 1965 to 1974 was more violent. We aren’t having hundreds of riots in the cities, we haven’t had assassinations and murders (yet). Antifa hasn’t resorted to gunfire and bombings and bank robberies like the Weather Underground and the SLA.
You could argue that the current situation is more ominous in that the Democratic Party has been captured by the same political wing that once produced the Weather Underground and the SLA. Like Obama mentor Bill Ayres. These aren’t Kennedy-Johnson-Humphrey cold war liberals. Some are arguably criminals and communists.
Old enough to remember November 22, 1963 quite well.
Pelham: "We aren’t having hundreds of riots in the cities, we haven’t had assassinations and murders (yet)."
Agreed, but in those days we saw none of today's mass shootings.
The first was the UT tower in 1966, then 18 years before another such at a San Ysidro McDonalds in 1984.
Now we see them every few months!
Sure the perps all seemed insane but more often than not there's a political message too, often 2nd Amendment or just anti-country music!?
The '60s radicals are in charge and seem to find mass shootings more politically effective than burning down your own neighborhood.
Pelham: "These aren’t Kennedy-Johnson-Humphrey cold war liberals.
Some are arguably criminals and communists."
At the time I was no fan of JFK.
In retrospect he seems a pretty good model for what you'd hope for from a "conservative" Democrat.