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Showing Original Post only (View all)If there is a Civil War II, and we win ..... [View all]
..... then what? What do we change? How do we change it? Will we still use the Constitution? Arbitrarily remove the Electoral College? Do we still use the Constitutional Amendment process?
Even more fundamentally, who will be "we"?
Just some troublesome thoughts I had this afternoon.
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Shake hands, tell them all is forgiven, let them destroy us again next century
FiveGoodMen
Jan 2020
#1
WSell if we don't win, what do we do? If we do, do you really think tRump will just accept the
KPN
Jan 2020
#30
It should be east and west, then each get a tropical part of the current country. nt
Blue_true
Jan 2020
#21
The fire back part is key. Those pinheads don't realize that a civil war won't be a shooting
Blue_true
Feb 2020
#62
I think it will be a peaceful dissolution of the union... into 2 or perhaps 3 smaller republics.
NurseJackie
Jan 2020
#14
Not worth discussing, because there won't be. Except at the ballot box.
scheming daemons
Jan 2020
#26
One thing is make sure that all the politicians that backed this coup are severely punished.
Kablooie
Jan 2020
#28
I agree we can't let these politicians get away with this. We can't be soft with these traitors
dustyscamp
Jan 2020
#31
Imagine on the eve of Civil War 1, that the POTUS was a Southern plantation owner & not Abe Lincoln
Hekate
Jan 2020
#41
An amicable partitioning, without war, is the only rational solution I can foresee.
SuprstitionAintthWay
Jan 2020
#40
Never. Do you know the history of the partitioning of India and Pakistan? Best read up on that.
Hekate
Jan 2020
#42
I do know it. Do you? Fortunately for us the history of Republican
SuprstitionAintthWay
Jan 2020
#48
Okay, just prepare yourself for the reality that nobody wants to actually move...
Hekate
Feb 2020
#50
... depending on the "outcome" of the electoral votes. Maybe not so quick.
JustABozoOnThisBus
Feb 2020
#58