What a Second American Civil War Could Look Like

Townhall.com ^ | July 21, 2020 | Mark Nuckols

[1Old Pro]

This is a people who masks themselves and hides in their homes from a virus with a 99.9% survival rate. Do you honestly think that these cowards will fight for anything?

These same people earning 50,000 per year for not working and complaining for more, nope

[Chickensoup]

There are about 100 people nationawide who are driving us towards war.

If they were eliminated it would go away.

[Ikeon]

OH SHT! Did you just mention settling with the HOA’s? :-O

[combat_boots]

Well, I’m wondering whether to learn Russian. Or Arabic.

[Brian Griffin]

The upcoming US civil war will probably be a mixture of the Greek Civil War, bloody Kansas, the Irish Republican actions and Al-Quada tactics.

Hopefully a civil war can be avoided by placing revenue and spending caps in our federal constitution.

[SmokingJoe]

No civil war has lasted centuries that I know of.

“The Karen Conflict is the longest civil war in the world, having had started in 1949 and is still ongoing. The Karen Conflict involves the Karen people, one of the largest ethnic groups in Southeast Asia, who have been fighting since ages long past for a separate Karen nation of their own in Myanmar (Burma).”

[palmer]

Because we don't start civil wars, we only finish them.

[RayChuang88]

What I fear is a larger scale version of Colombia's infamous La Violencia, where armed citizens are pitted against each other (think "Bleeding Kansas" but on a MUCH larger scale). Millions of Americans will end up dying from what amounts to large-scale tribal warfare.

[DuncanWaring]

“Only the good die young”.

[Red Badger]

I cannot imagine a nation full of ‘Karens’.........................

[palmer]

their HOA/POA

In the suburbs maybe. Here in rural VA the HOA would be united and the sheriff would visit us and give us subtle advice on S3.

[TexasGunLover]

Short of door-to-door firearm confiscation, or the stoppage of entitlement payments will bring about a hot civil war... nothing.

The left will continue to pick here and there, but nothing will cause your average true-blooded American to rise up- nothing.

[DuncanWaring]

About the CWII Ping List

The CWII Ping List is short for Civil War II. It is NOT a list of people advocating another Civil War in America. It is a list of people who are interested in the parallels between the Civil War (or War Between the States, if you prefer) and our current situation, or more generally are noting the references to a 'coming Civil War' that are made in the press.

Of course sometimes this is merely a figure of speech, such as "The Tea Parties are fighting a civil war for the heart of the GOP". This would not merit a CWII ping.

On the other hand someone saying something like "The events in California are reminiscent of what happened in Yugoslavia in the period proceeding the Civil War" would merit a ping.

FR rules do not permit advocating for the overthrow of the Republic, and I am not aware of anyone doing so on the list. Still many do see that as the political climate worsens we may be heading in a direction that makes such a conflict all but inevitable, particularly if other avenues for resolving our differences are taken away. Such as widespread vote fraud by leftists making elections meaningless, or a small cadre of judges over-ruling all attempts to end destructive policies over the clear will of the people.

The correct keyword tag for the Civil War II ping list is "CWII". Please Freep Mail me to get on the list

[goodnesswins]

Chinese?

[alloysteel]

I have been hoping that all this discussion of the possibility of “Civil War II” would remain rhetorical and theoretical. It seems less and less so with each passing day, with one political party enlisting some pretty heavy hitters, malefactors of great wealth, that seem determined to force change upon what has been a highly satisfactory system, for no conceivable reason other than a sort of social experiment on a massive scale.

Sometimes these “new ways” turn out to be a reversion to some earlier failed attempt to exercise a “more efficient” command-and-control regime upon humanity, with somehow the “right” balance to make it work THIS time.

What is the definition of insanity, again? Doing the same thing over and over, hoping for a different outcome?

[Old Yeller]

The Karen Conflict is the longest civil war in the world, having had started in 1949 and is still ongoing. The Karen Conflict involves the Karen people, one of the largest ethnic groups in Southeast Asia, who have been fighting since ages long past for a separate Karen nation of their own in Myanmar (Burma).”

There's those Karens again.

[Alberta's Child]

It’s worth noting that gun control has disappeared as a matter of political discussion in the last 3-4 months.

Even that nitwit David Hogg is probably armed to the teeth right now.

[SmokingJoe]

. It could start as early as the window between Election Day and Inauguration Day.

Yup.
One way or another, there is going to be a lot of violence between the elections and inauguration day and even beyond. So far, it's the Antifa/BLM doing all the shooting. It will not stay that way come November.

[antidemoncrat]

Satan is protecting him.

[1Old Pro]

Even that nitwit David Hogg is probably armed to the teeth right now.

He must have bought up all the 00 buckshot, can't find it anywhere :)