Can America Avoid Another Civil War?

[Politesse]

The main problem with secession is the rural - urban nature of the political division. There are red pockets in blue states and blue pockets in red states. Secession will not solve that problem.

Exchange(s) of people maybe?

For example, blue Coloradans can go to California and red state citizens in California can go to Colorado, etc.

That's fantasy though. I'm not putting this forth as a serious idea. It would take peace and cooperation. Blue states wouldn't like it and red states would be willing to bomb and kill over it. Also, the theocrats behind Trump wouldn't be willing to lose so many "souls." They'll decapitate and hang as many as they could in order to "save" them.

Oh yes. 5 million mostly desperately poor refugees are going to leave California overnight and find housing in Colorado, which in this scenario is almost certainly a free fire zone. No, if anyone moves, it'd be up to the north of the state where Jefferson State has been threatening secession for decades. But they can't handle that kind of mass emigration any more than Colorado could. Redding, the natural choice for capital, already has a severe housing crisis. It's also, like all cities, turning blue as it grows.

 

[Tigers!]

It's also, like all cities, turning blue as it grows.

That is most probably a circulation problem.

 

[Patooka]

Wait 'til swizz gets pulled over and asked for his "papers".

TSwizzle is an immigrant living in California who doesn't watch FOX news. His tribe despises his kind so much I doubt they'd even bother with that formality.

 

[SLD]

Can America Avoid Another Civil War?

...and instead make the transition from a white-controlled economic and political system to a truly multiracial, multi-religious pluralistic democracy with a stable middle class?

hartmannreport.com

There’s little doubt that if Donald Trump thought starting a civil war to seize and hold power in America would work, he’d do it. As would the majority of his cult members.

But could they pull it off? Could America be on the edge of a possible second Civil War? And, if so, why and how did it get this far?

Most people would argue, “Aren’t civil wars usually started by the downtrodden? By the poor and disenfranchised? Rich and powerful people don’t start civil wars, do they?”

Amazingly, that widespread belief is almost 100 percent wrong. (Of course we believe this wrongly: rich and powerful people typically write history.)

It turns out that the vast majority of the hundreds of civil wars fought throughout history were started by those in power or wealthy elites very close to power. Facing economic, political, or demographic change, they’re the ones who see their wealth and power slipping away from them; that’s why they start civil wars, to hang onto that power and the wealth associated with it.

Serbs in power started the terrible civil war in the Balkans. Wealthy plantation owners in the American south started our Civil War. Wealthy Sunnis in majority Shiite Iraq started the Iraq Civil War. Other examples of recent civil wars started by in-power elites (I’ve done relief work in the midst of three, in Colombia, South Sudan, and Uganda) are listed at the end of this article.

And today a few dozen morbidly rich members of America’s elite, including the world’s richest man, using input occasionally provided by Vladimir Putin, could very well help start a 21st century American civil war.

I don't think there will be a civil war. I see if Trump loses a lot of terrorism types of protest. But I found the origins of civil wars interesting. The elites start the civil wars, the poor die in them.

If Trump loses, and then steals the the election, there should be a civil war.