Our Republic is in severe jeopardy today because of Justice Scalia's death yesterday.
I believe Obama will appoint Scalia's successor, and that McConnell and the Senate will confirm anyone Obama wants, including the odious Eric Holder.
Imagine a 5-4 Supreme Court decision interpreting the 2nd Amendment to ban the mere possession of handguns. It could happen. MILLIONS of us would not comply, of course. Any attempt to force us would lead to mass death.
But this one event, Scalia's death, could be the inflection point of the downfall of the American Republic, and quite possibly the traceable initiation of the 2nd American Civil War.
Any American civil war would end poorly. Likely, there would be mass gun confiscation by government agencies in US neighborhoods and any resistance portrayed as the new american ISIS.
I don’t honestly see how the people would be willing to resist much. The US has been steadily diminishing local communal identity with its immigration and economic policy for decades. So there’s not really a communal network of established individuals who could easily band together. And the likelihood of online networking is a joke in today’s surveillance technology.
All the wars in the Middle-East have essentially written the SOP for armed population suppression.