I'm watching a TV program, a news special on a show called Amanpour and Co., and they are discussing the chances or risks of a second American civil war. They have on there an author named Barbara Walter, who they are interviewing about the feasibility of preventing a civil war in the United States, based upon her research on civil wars in other countries. Her book is called "How Civil Wars Start." She seems to allege that white, male Christian nationalists are the demographic most likely to instigate another civil war. To be fair, that is also who started the last one in America, if you look at the demographics of the Southern Confederacy.
Still, it would be interesting to hear your perspectives. Try to keep it civil, though, and avoid flaming, trolling, spamming, and flamebaiting. There's going to be a poll, incidentally. We don't want the mods landing on us like a ton of bricks. They're like to ban first and ask questions later, given their track record of undue haste.
If what she says is at all accurate, it is more than a little terrifying. She is outlining a number of scenarios where this might happen. Frankly, though, my own opinion is less that civil war is inevitable, but that societal collapse is all but guaranteed, which would make civil war look like a Sunday School picnic.
