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this post was submitted on 05 Jul 2023
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No one really wants a civil war. People are too comfy for that. Something will shift and people will realize they are being manipulated. The anger will just burn out eventually.
Wanting civil war isn’t the question. The question is, what do we do when the right manipulates the system to give itself perpetual, absolute power? Give up? Fight? Leave? Leave and fight? Not many people want civil war because it’s not obvious to them yet that the alternative is worse. Give it time.
Have you read "Christian Nation", by Frederick C. Rich?
Not yet. Which parts of this topic is it relevant to?
Civil war in contemporary USA. And the right manipulating the system to give itself perpetual, absolute power.
It's an interesting alternate history novel.
Nobody wants a war? A good 15% of the US population is seething to use their guns against gays or liberals.
I don't believe that. People that say that are just LARPing. People in general are good. They don't sit around in extreme states of anger all day every day. Something has to trigger and feed the hatred. Eventually the fuel for it will stop working.
What evidence would it take to change your mind? What makes Americans more likely to be good than people who participated in authoritarian atrocities historically? Where is your confidence that things will be fine coming from?