Found this trawling the dump:
The OP:
AAO (2,664 posts)
The next civil war is coming. It is almost inevitable.
And it will be not unlike the first American civil war - but this time it will be conservative vs. liberal. Actually it will be heavily armed and dangerous morons against the sane people of this country. It just seems that the heavily armed dangerous morons tend to vote republican. Most sane, or educated, or well traveled people tend to vote for a saner party. The tea-party(R) destroyed the Republican party and I will forever be in their debt.
If they want to fight, they should be reminded that we currently control the nukes. (now THAT is ).
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civil war?The comments:
Auggie (17,922 posts)
1. There will be civil unrest due to food and water shortages as climate change takes hold
but not an actual civil war.
OK....
RKP5637 (28,002 posts)
2. Just judging from what's going on in CA with water, we're heading there, probably. n/t
I guess Mexifornia has never had a drought.
Auggie (17,922 posts)
10. A perfect storm is brewing
• Food and water shortages brought on by climate change.
• Ever increasing division of wealth between the 1% and 99%.
• An increase in poor but well-armed people.
• Plutocracy, thanks to Citizens United.
It'll be rich vs. poor.
Poor but well armed people? Most of the well armed people, outside of inner city gangs are employed and don't complain about their lot in life... unlike the dump.
davekriss (2,859 posts)
15. Inevitable class war
Occupy wall street anyone?
Lurks Often (2,195 posts)
3. Probably not. I think we'd see a Constitutional Convention before that
The real question is would the Federal government acknowledge the decisions of the Constitutional Convention and would they prevent the break up of the 50 states through force if some states refused to acknowledge the result of the Constitutional Convention and wished to leave the United States.
CatholicEdHead (9,543 posts)
31. Republicans are pushing for that in many states already
The Religious Right wants to rewrite the constitution.
Really? I never heard of that, dummie.
FSogol (18,868 posts)
5. Unrec. Ridiculous hyperbole.
My mole? You decide.
blkmusclmachine (7,802 posts)
11. BRING. IT. ON. (mutherf/ckers)
AlinPA (14,359 posts)
12. I've never seen the split between Americans this bad except for the Vietnam War era. IMO, before
there is an actual civil war we will see red states seceding. The right wing teabaggers have not yet gone to violence as I had earlier expected they would, but if a Democratic candidate wins the next presidential election, the crazies could explode. It would be a matter for law enforcement, not a civil war.
Most LEO are conservative, dummie.
grasswire (39,289 posts)
26. why would they secede?
the blue states support them
Dummie grasswire never got the Soros memo that this was debunked a long time ago.
First Speaker (134 posts)
23. I don't know about "civil war"...but we are less politically stable than many think...
...and here's a simple example. 2016, 2020--we have another razor-thin election. What happens if the Repubs try and steal another one, especially if they have fewer popular votes? What if Scalia and Thomas are *still* on the Court, and decide again in favor of the Republican? Think it couldn't happen again? I do. Would the Dems just sit back and take it next time? I believe another crisis of that sort would seriously test our whole system, much more than 2000 did.
Or just look at the crazy laws the GOP is pushing in the states. The sheer hatred of the poor, the helpless, and of course women and minorities...what if they ratch up the attacks on voting rights? I believe there will be a breaking point if they do, and it might well trend towards violence. Stolen elections, suppression of voting...anyone think that couldn't lead to a Venezuela/Ukraine type of crisis here?
One more--nullification. This is openly becoming respectable in state GOP circles. This has not been an issue in the US since Appomattox. If it becomes one again, the very legitimacy of the Constitutional system will, in my opinion, be up for grabs. No President could tolerate it for long. Could you imagine the reaction of the Repubs, and the right in general, if a state *should* "nullify" a law, and the Kenyan Muslim Commie President should take action against that state? Think that's impossible? I don't.
I believe that today's GOP is quite literally trying to turn the US into a de facto one-party authoritarian state. Of course they don't *say* this--no one carries a sign saying, "I am a fascist". But their actions, especially in the state legislatures, certainly indicate this. And no one can deny their contempt for liberal democracy. Either they succeed, or they will have to be stopped. And if they keep rigging the game, "stopping" them by peaceful means might become impossible. When that happens, God knows what might occur in this country. But we are further down the path of authoritarian, Disneyfied "democracy" than I would have thought possible.
Substitute Dem for repub and the first part of the dummie comment is true.
AAO (2,664 posts)
28. As I told my son today
Some of the more virulent teabag types think the US would be better if they rounded up and put all liberals int FEMA camps. And since the majority of black Americans are liberals, they get an added bonus to tickle their racist bones. Problem with their little pipe dream is if they get rid of all the liberals they would quickly turn the US into the Soviet Union. Twenty-five years from the destruction of the Soviet Union, to it's resurrection right here in what used to be "the good ol' USA". It would be a certainty.
A good portion of the black americans are on welfare, dumbass. Let us try a little experiment dummie... cut off welfare to everyone be they white, black, brown. See who riots.
Next thing is if there is no repub party then the dems will do exactly what you say. And a good portion of your race will end up dead. Not because they are black, but because they serve no useful purpose to society. In other words... net takers. That don't fly in a dictatorship.
chrisa (3,460 posts)
24. Of the current "militias" in this country, 95% won't leave their mom's basement, and the rest are e-warriors.
95 percent of the militias just want to be left alone. Leave them alone, they leave you alone. The ones in mom's basements are all dummies.
airplaneman (311 posts)
29. We are teetering on republican or democratic control.
2014 and 2016 will be pivotal for the next generation. If the Republicans win we are finished and we will sea oceans of poverty spread throughout this country. If the Democrats win we can still not win unless we get an FDR type democrat in and sweeping populist change. We must be successful voting the Republicans out of existence and get a strong popular movement for FDR type change. If not there will be 10's of millions of people homeless in the streets with 10's of millions more seeing this as their fate. We will see riots, shootings, and suicide bomber as huge number of people see no hope for the future add to this the possibility of the collapse of farming with global warming - I don't think people realize how quickly things can degrade into anarchy.
-Airplane
Ummm yo dummie? What is the unemployment rate again?
La Lioness Priyanka (46,872 posts)
32. people can't even bother to get up to vote, you think they will go into war?
Loaded Liberal Dem (199 posts)
41. Sane person here, with six guns
Five of which I didn't have before the 2010 election.
Obeeekaybeee!!!
AAO (2,664 posts)
43. Great - we're going to need people with heavy firepower.
Vashta Nerada (2,968 posts)
42. If there ever was another civil war, it'd be between the haves and have-nots.
Translation: It would be between the welfare parasites and the working folks... then we have this:
AAO (2,664 posts)
44. Well, yeah, but that would be a very short one.
He is correct. The working folks will defend what they worked for. The welfare parasites will run when lead starts coming their way.
That is it for now. Might get big, might not.
