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Take a look back at the “Troubles” in Northern Ireland to get more of a sense of what a modern civil war would look like. You can also look at the insurgencies in places like Iraq and Afghanistan, though obviously those countries are much different from the US than the UK is.
The battle lines, if people are convinced that there really is a ‘fight’ going on, will be between individual houses and apartments. I know that there are those among my neighbors who tracked what political signs were where… and they have no problem making their position known. We are too ‘integrated’ as a society to keep even a semblance of separation between conservatives, liberals, progressives, fascists, ‘antifascists,’ democrats, republicans…
and we have a lot more trigger happy yokels armed to the teeth (in civilian terms). It’s going to suck. We can all hold out hope for the midterms, but fuck…
There will not be battle lines.
Take a look back at the “Troubles” in Northern Ireland to get more of a sense of what a modern civil war would look like. You can also look at the insurgencies in places like Iraq and Afghanistan, though obviously those countries are much different from the US than the UK is.
The battle lines, if people are convinced that there really is a ‘fight’ going on, will be between individual houses and apartments. I know that there are those among my neighbors who tracked what political signs were where… and they have no problem making their position known. We are too ‘integrated’ as a society to keep even a semblance of separation between conservatives, liberals, progressives, fascists, ‘antifascists,’ democrats, republicans…
and we have a lot more trigger happy yokels armed to the teeth (in civilian terms). It’s going to suck. We can all hold out hope for the midterms, but fuck…
Myanmar comes to mind as a worst-case scenario, too. They’ve been fighting since the pandemic and it’s basically in every direction, everywhere.