[quote=teaboy]I’ve always thought civil war was on its way here (but much like self-driving cars, always ‘5 years out’ ha-ha.)

I’d always assumed the civil war would be between haves and have-nots, given the ever increasing levels of inequality, but I had trouble understanding how it would manifest itself from general grumblings to all out war. Surely the truly poor are too focused on sustenance?
Does anyone remember why those 99%er protests in NY fizzled out? I dont.

But, a civil war along partisan or ideological lines, fueled by good only fashioned 24/7 propaganda and driven by delusional 2nd amendment masses that make up 50%+ of middle america… now that’s a path to civil war I can believe in.

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There won’t be a civil war between haves and have nots. Because even if you are someone on paper that is a have not, in this country we have things like credit and credit cards that can be easily obtained so that even the have not’s don’t need to feel they don’t have not enough. And if there’s an issue, bankruptcy filing is pretty lax here and one isn’t stuck to debtor’s prison…