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MAGA’s vision of a Second Civil War dangerously misreads America’s fragmented political geography | Milwaukee Independent
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The Troubles, American edition.
Pretty much, the main perps will be MAGAts as well. The middle is too gutless for violence and the left prosecuted heavier than the right.
It's worked for like a century
Yup.
There won't be a front line or pitched battles like people are fantasizing about. Something will kick it off, maybe a riot, an assassination, or maybe an opposition leader gets life in prison or even executed on fabricated treason charges and people start shooting/bombing about it. Then there will be a round up of "terrorists" and probably some lynchings that go unpunished after all the current surveillance tech out there miraculously "fails", all followed by a protracted insurgency as a response to these acts.
I always picture the images out of Ireland where there’s some armed folks crouched behind a wall surveying down the street, plus some non-combatants walking home with their groceries. You’ll have a mix of people fighting for their political causes, criminal elements taking advantage of the chaos, and people settling personal scores under the cover of it all.
I really question the idea that if this breaks out in blue cities, particularly ones where the city is an island of a sea of red, how realistic it would be for blue city leaders to control their police departments. I’m in one of those cities, I have no doubt that while our mayor wouldn’t endorse violence, would try and mitigate police violence and get ignored. During our BLM protests we had heavily armed caravans of counter-protestors drive in from the boonies, across the state, and from out of state, probably 5:1 them vs us, including outlaw bikers and unabashed neo-Nazis/Aryan Nations. The cops stood with their backs to them and ignored multiple incidents of brandishing and death threats, even refused to press charges on the kid who popped a shot off into the ground to spook the crowd. Their sniper nests were line of site on the speakers, not the agitators. I don’t think anyone believes the cops are going to pick a side.