Timeline for What are some plausible factors and societal changes that could result in a modern civil war in the United States?
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| Jan 27, 2020 at 20:09 | comment | added | Martin Schröder | "That state has a new government that has promised to confiscate privately held firearms" [citation requested]. | |
| Jan 27, 2020 at 16:22 | comment | added | Ghotir | @jamesqf I agree - because I'm one of those people who'd as soon shoot both sets... (figuratively, obviously, not literally.) I've watched the divide grow wider during my lifetime, though, and it makes you wonder about the future. | |
| Jan 25, 2020 at 18:52 | comment | added | jamesqf | @Ghotir: The problem with the current polarization as a cause of a new civil war is that the two polarized parties don't represent a majority. E.g. there are lots of people who'd as soon shoot both sets :-) | |
| Jan 25, 2020 at 2:43 | comment | added | nick012000 | "Civil War 2.0 already has a nickname: the "boogaloo"." googles Huh, the Alt-Right's not calling it "the Day of the Rope" anymore? | |
| Jan 24, 2020 at 18:37 | comment | added | pygosceles | It has shown itself to be nothing in terms of violence. Comfort yourselves regarding the Americans who have kept arms. More than two centuries of an armed populace and still no Armageddon coming from Second Amendment proponents. | |
| Jan 24, 2020 at 15:55 | comment | added | Ghotir | A friend described the current state of American politics as two five-year-olds accusing each other of being a liar and a cheat - with both being accurate, and both assuming they have the moral high ground. Gun control is only ONE example of the polarized hypocrisy gripping the nation. (You have my +1.) | |
| Jan 24, 2020 at 15:51 | comment | added | workerjoe | OP's question in the end was "What possible events and/or societal changes would have to occur for America to plausibly have a second civil war?". So, simplifying my answer: "none". | |
| Jan 24, 2020 at 13:08 | comment | added | DrakaSAN | This answer may (or may not) be fit for politics.se, but this is worldbuilding. The goal of the question is to know which elements they need to be shown in the story so that there is no plot holes for the fictional civil war happening. This answer only show that those elements are present in the real world, but do not list them, nor explain their importance. | |
| Jan 23, 2020 at 20:24 | history | answered | workerjoe | CC BY-SA 4.0 |