I wouldn’t call the last ~150 years a civil war at all. Civil wars are much worse than that.

But your observation that the split was never fully healed is fully correct.

I live in Chicago now and I’m proud of our city for resisting so hard.

With the ICE raids, Trump’s immigration thugs complained that Chicago is near impossible to work with because they are met with such fierce resistance. We’ve been prepped for how to deal with ICE, and Gov. Pritzker and Mayor Johnson have been helpful with that.

The main complaint is that we all know our rights and ICE can’t just bulldoze through our city. Guess we’re the town of law and order 🤷

Sorry NYC, your mayor is a chicken shit who would tattle on Anne Frank before the Nazis got to the door.

Should he allow for elections again he will be given the same reverence as Regan. I only found out about how much of a monster he was in Junior/ Senior year of highschool and I grew up in Lefty Godless Seattle.

Are you my neighbor? She always looks for any excuse to say “shoved it up my ass”

Oh 100%.

Fuck I’m so addicted to social media though. Damn I feel so check mate’d.

Federal abortion ban

Gay marriage ban

Derecognizing trans people, oh wait that happened

Reviving the war on drugs by forcing states to criminalize weed

Ending the ACA

Ending any and every environmental protection entity

Ending the two term limit for the president

Banning protests and strikes

Criminalize being homeless, oh wait that happened

From this (my sad, sad, crystal ball)

Protests erupt, at first peaceful until live ammunition is used as a suppressant. From this radical groups will likely work with established gangs to create an insurgency. Governors will be forced to either comply with the federal government, or may choose to unite with other governors to defy the federal forces as they see the writing on the wall. It will be a legal battle at first, but then there will likely be an inciting event that will create an interstate crisis. This crisis will either divide state governments, force them under trump, or they will collapse altogether. The battle lines won’t be drawn on state lines, but rather between rural and urban territories. It will be more ethereal much like what happened in Syria.

From an international perspective, the new Bloc of resistance (Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea) will use this chance to advance their agendas. Russia will absolutely support the Trump government, while China will invade Taiwan easily, and then try to keep America slightly stable but still as weak as possible. North Korea and Iran will likely send aid to the other members but not engage directly.

Canada and the EU will have likely close their borders long before this as our alliance deteriorated due to Trump’s intense isolationism.

If you thought Brexit was a shot in the foot, we just straight up pulled a pin on a grenade and put it in our pocket.

Very fair take.

That said he’s not a full on idiot. MAGAts are useful tools for him, so he is more likely to try and make them happy, in some way. Currently the way to make them happy is to punish the left. In our post 9/11 USA, rage is what flips seats.

W Bush won his second term because we were blind with rage after the attacks, and John Kerry didn’t run a counter rage campaign.

Obama won because the financial crash enraged the left.

Obama won his second term because Romney wasn’t able to stir up the needed rage.

Trump won because he was the embodiment of rage.

Biden won by the rage we had for Trump in the summer of 2020.

Trump won again by running a campaign of rage vs Kamala who ran a “campaign of joy”.

We are a country of 50 mini countries. All you need to do to win is generate enough rage to pit purple states against the states who won’t vote for you. So long as this country stands as it is, this is just how it’s going to be. Sadly any diplomatic fixes for this are pipe dreams now.

The only way this will end is when the fire of rage consumes the whole system and burns it down. After that… I don’t know.

I hate to say it, but yes. Everything we’ve predicted from trump has come true thus far.

The insurrection was predicted

The migrant camps were predicted

The ice raids were predicted

Roe v Wade was predicted

Selling Giving Ukraine to Russia was predicted

Banning DEI was predicted

The list goes on but more importantly these were all seen as hypothetical worst case scenarios. We should stop treating the next steps like they are hypothetical. America has fallen, and civil war is next.

Former presidents at least recognized they had the responsibility to take care of both the people who voted for them and the people who didn’t. Trump only sees the people who voted for him and the people he needs to make an example of.

I hate to say it, but the DNC is weak and won’t help us anymore. I supported Kamala like hell and believed that they could figure it out but they just don’t and won’t.

I’m not a violent person. I hate the thought that I’d ever be forced into a situation where I need to either learn how to fight or die (because right now I’m SOL). I never wanted to find myself rooting for assassins and feeling like the world would be better off of certain people were dead. I’d rather believe the world would be better off if certain people were alive.

But all I see in the future is a federal coup backed by sycophants in the Senate and supreme Court that then collides with the governors of blue states who won’t bend the knee.

TL;Dr if we don’t go full dictator, we are going to civil war, and we deserve it.

I think it is fair to judge Biden by his record more than his accute gaffs. He’s old af, so on a minute to minute basis, he’s unable to keep a coherent thought. But if you look at what he does in a more macro sense, his administration has been brilliant. It’s the entire “I’m smart in my head but I can’t fully articulate it” situation. Basically he has solid philosophy, he just can’t sell it anymore.

Frankly, if Biden didn’t have to go into the public, he would be a great president for the next 4 years (with the support he has). Harris will be sharper in public, and I think she will take the Biden positions one step further.

Ultimately to win elections, Democrats need to be better story tellers. They keep pulling up statistics and data, but they need to create a more visceral message. The GOP fear monger with stories of “an immigrant invasion”, but Dems have yet to create a blockbuster “women dying of lack of abortion access” story. I mean those stories are out there, they just need better messengers.