Reply #4: I wonder about that also

[Tom Rinaldo]

I think we are way closer to that now than we ever were in the late 60's early 70's though a lot was happening on the streets then and there were militant leftists. There was no where near this much domestic economic pain back then to feed into wide spread militancy.

Nowadays so far the armed groups are all on the Right. That is an unstable situation - how long can they focus their anger at Government only? I think racist hate groups, though they spiked with the election of a black President, don't have time on their side. Younger Americans increasingly are not only race tolerent - they are moving closer to race blind as a way of judging people.

Anger at corporations has not yet fully jelled into a real movement on the left, or on the right.

I guess I can't see anything like a real civil war breaking out until sometime after the 2016 elections at the earliest. Though I think more civil unrest is almost certainly in the cards for the future here, I am not convinced that will lead to a civel war.