Sat Jul 16, 2016, 08:34 AM

rug (82,333 posts)

Who Will Win the Upcoming Civil War?

Yesterday 2:15pm
Hamilton Nolan
Senior Writer, Gawker

With racial tensions, inequality, and populist rage set to boil over, some fear America could be on the path to a violent confrontation between the angry Trumpies and the equally angry lefties. Before we decide to start this war, we must ask: who would win?

As police shootings and street protests stoke a national climate already heated by xenophobia, terror attacks, and the unexpected success of an anti-everything brand of politics not seen in generations, many have compared 2016 to 1968, a year marked by assassinations, riots, and questions about the continued success of the American experiment. It is still early, though. By the time this is all over we may be more inclined to compare 2016 to 1860, when half of America got so pissed at the other half that a bloody civil war ensued.

This, of course, is the worst case scenario. But it’s always good to plan ahead.

The Combatants

On the Right: Low-income white workers who were on the losing end of globalization and have become convinced that immigrants and non-white people are to blame; Billionaires; White nationalists; Angry grandpas; Fearful grandmas; Survivalists; Fox News viewers; “Car guys”; Inveterate racists who have no excuse.

On the Left: Black Lives Matter activists; Bernie Sanders voters; Aging hippies; College students and professors; Legal and illegal immigrants of all nationalities; Occupy-style perma-activists; Confused self-identified pacifists.

http://gawker.com/who-will-win-the-upcoming-civil-war-1783675459

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44 replies	Author	Time	Post
Who Will Win the Upcoming Civil War? (Original post)	rug	Jul 2016	OP
The Puritans, again.	AngryAmish	Jul 2016	#1
Da fuq? - nt	KingCharlemagne	Jul 2016	#2
I take it as sardonic.	rug	Jul 2016	#4
It's a little unsettling that	sarae	Jul 2016	#3
Plenty of people on our side	GulfCoast66	Jul 2016	#10
Lots of Dems own guns. So do many POC. I wouldn't be concerned. nt	hack89	Jul 2016	#20
Civil War. A fear of someone who probably thinks this lefty toter 'lives in fear.' heh.	Eleanors38	Jul 2016	#22
Suddenly	DashOneBravo	Jul 2016	#33
Reminds me of a story told by a Jewish supporter of the 2A.	pablo_marmol	Jul 2016	#41
My guess is that it would be the same southern authoritarian sympathizers,	Bonhomme Richard	Jul 2016	#5
Before the first civil war we had them contained ...	GeorgeGist	Jul 2016	#6
Whoever has the larger support of the military. Now, if it's 46% military on one side and 54% on th6	MillennialDem	Jul 2016	#7
People overrate the strength of the military domestically.	NutmegYankee	Jul 2016	#14
Tell that to the Spanish Maqis and the Forest Brothers. I also heard the US military was going to	MillennialDem	Jul 2016	#19
Notice that it took decades to knock them down.	NutmegYankee	Jul 2016	#26
Yeah, but it just proves that they can be defeated. And there's a much higher will to defeat	MillennialDem	Jul 2016	#44
This is changing.	drray23	Jul 2016	#27
And we have learned the cost.	NutmegYankee	Jul 2016	#29
Oh I agree. It would be a disaster. Nt.	drray23	Jul 2016	#31
The military	TeddyR	Jul 2016	#35
In this scenario, I think they'd be best described as	Marr	Jul 2016	#39
The corporations.	hobbit709	Jul 2016	#8
THIS^^^ n/t	RKP5637	Jul 2016	#32
I don't think people are as angry as the media claims	treestar	Jul 2016	#9
^^^ This.	Eleanors38	Jul 2016	#24
M$M heats it up because it gives them more viewers and more $$$$$'s. I think many in the US	RKP5637	Jul 2016	#30
Agreed. NT	pablo_marmol	Jul 2016	#36
The people who want to start it, who want to steal the public land and trillions in oil, gas, ....	L. Coyote	Jul 2016	#11
Most "intelligent" line in the article is the last.	pablo_marmol	Jul 2016	#12
Maybe he really wants one? (a civil war, not a gun). nt	jmg257	Jul 2016	#13
The sentence seems to suggest that. Or the author is really stupid. :-) NT	pablo_marmol	Jul 2016	#37
Behind some shit-talkin' banners is a Creature from the Id.	Eleanors38	Jul 2016	#25
*	pablo_marmol	Jul 2016	#38
There won't be another civil war. Ham's friends are too busy walking off cliffs...	cherokeeprogressive	Jul 2016	#15
No one.	okasha	Jul 2016	#16
Hi, okasha!	rug	Jul 2016	#17
Working at it.	okasha	Jul 2016	#18
Not the gun owners	Matrosov	Jul 2016	#21
From Gawker's description of whites, I can see how that population was abandoned by progressives.	Eleanors38	Jul 2016	#23
There won't be a civil war	PJMcK	Jul 2016	#28
I don't think it will happen	DashOneBravo	Jul 2016	#34
The 15 million (or more) dead will not...	Agnosticsherbet	Jul 2016	#40
Okay--I fit a few of the on the left categories:	panader0	Jul 2016	#42
Everyone who doesn't participate (eom)	Shankapotomus	Jul 2016	#43

Response to rug (Original post)

Sat Jul 16, 2016, 08:39 AM

AngryAmish (25,704 posts)

1. The Puritans, again.

They won then lost the first Civil War and had to come over here. They won the US Civil War and hold the whip hand now.

Who Will Win the Upcoming Civil War?

1. The Puritans, again.

2. Da fuq? - nt

4. I take it as sardonic.

3. It's a little unsettling that

10. Plenty of people on our side

20. Lots of Dems own guns. So do many POC. I wouldn't be concerned. nt

22. Civil War. A fear of someone who probably thinks this lefty toter 'lives in fear.' heh.

33. Suddenly

41. Reminds me of a story told by a Jewish supporter of the 2A.

5. My guess is that it would be the same southern authoritarian sympathizers,

6. Before the first civil war we had them contained ...

7. Whoever has the larger support of the military. Now, if it's 46% military on one side and 54% on th6

14. People overrate the strength of the military domestically.

19. Tell that to the Spanish Maqis and the Forest Brothers. I also heard the US military was going to

26. Notice that it took decades to knock them down.

44. Yeah, but it just proves that they can be defeated. And there's a much higher will to defeat

27. This is changing.

29. And we have learned the cost.

31. Oh I agree. It would be a disaster. Nt.

35. The military

39. In this scenario, I think they'd be best described as

8. The corporations.

32. THIS^^^ n/t

9. I don't think people are as angry as the media claims

24. ^^^ This.

30. M$M heats it up because it gives them more viewers and more $$$$$'s. I think many in the US

36. Agreed. NT

11. The people who want to start it, who want to steal the public land and trillions in oil, gas, ....

12. Most "intelligent" line in the article is the last.

13. Maybe he really wants one? (a civil war, not a gun). nt

37. The sentence seems to suggest that. Or the author is **really** stupid. :-) NT

25. Behind some shit-talkin' banners is a Creature from the Id.

38. *

15. There won't be another civil war. Ham's friends are too busy walking off cliffs...

16. No one.

17. Hi, okasha!

18. Working at it.

21. Not the gun owners

23. From Gawker's description of whites, I can see how that population was abandoned by progressives.

28. There won't be a civil war

34. I don't think it will happen

40. The 15 million (or more) dead will not...

42. Okay--I fit a few of the on the left categories:

43. Everyone who doesn't participate (eom)

37. The sentence seems to suggest that. Or the author is really stupid. :-) NT