Over a quarter of Americans have no idea how anything works
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~~Over a quarter of~~ Americans have no idea how anything works
I'm pretty sure that's way higher than that, including top levels of government
i think "civil war" has become a placeholder for violent destabilization. if there's some other word for it when trust in institutions is so low that the default response to "another guy walked into a building and opened fire on everybody" is being unfazed, americans don't know it. everybody who isn't angry is at least on edge, brittle. and the political system that was meant to diffuse revolutionary energy into the ballotbox has only surgically removed the revolutionary focus, leaving us with a rising tide of energy, occasionally foaming and bubbling over into violence in the workplace, at the school, at the club, in the home, and on the streets.
and the elections create swells of this unfocused agitation, which no longer ebb after the election as aggrieved factions now claim "the system is rigged!" because of course it is rigged, not that either faction wants to reform this. they want to manage the rigging and they are bothered by the other faction fiddling with the controller, because its our turn and mom said this was a two player game.
come on, we won't be that lucky.
more than half of Americans are so ignorant and coddled they'd starve to death without restaurants
Another quarter are excited for the civil war.
The most I’m expecting is a short lived ad hoc tacticool “checkpoint” on the way to work to keep out the illegals, despite my town being in the geographic center of a continent.
Non Americans would fucking love to see it.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
A civil war takes work and organization. Not expecting the chuds to get out further than a mile before they make a stop at an Applebees and lose interest.
Americans think civil war is just when two groups don't like each other for about 45 minutes every 4 years.
Yeah no, it's just going to be more and more terrorism, and if we're lucky, finally balkanization and imperial collapse.