Civil war, for what? Every time I see this mentioned, I think, "for what?"
I’m not American but I can see how many things have simply gone too far these past years.
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#13Civil war, for what? Every time I see this mentioned, I think, "for what?"
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#14Civil war, for what? Every time I see this mentioned, I think, "for what?"
Revolts over wealth inequality have happened many times throughout history. Wealth inequality is currently quite high.
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#15Would love to see what percentage of Americans would be willing to fight in a civil war. My guess is it's a whole lot lower. 3 way civil war between left extremists vs right extremists vs the federal government?
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#16Source is apparently a preprint (that is, not peer-reviewed) uploaded here: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.07.15.22277693v... > Participants: Cross-sectional nationwide survey conducted May 13 to June 2, 2022; participants were adult members of the Ipsos KnowledgePanel. 8,620 respondents, but I don't see how they were recruited or how potential bias was accounted for. Given how weird some of the interne…
I wonder if that's in the context of a civil war. As in was the question something like: "In the event of a civil war, would you...?" Because than it makes more sense to me.
It's one thing to be willing to fight in a civil war, which involves all of the things you just mentioned, and another thing entirely to want to instigate those things.
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#17It’s hard for me to gauge the difference in attitudes now and in the past. Things seem worse now, but maybe that is just because I’m more aware.
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#18Civil war, for what? Every time I see this mentioned, I think, "for what?"
Political power and cultural dominance/self-interest
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#20Source is apparently a preprint (that is, not peer-reviewed) uploaded here: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.07.15.22277693v... > Participants: Cross-sectional nationwide survey conducted May 13 to June 2, 2022; participants were adult members of the Ipsos KnowledgePanel. 8,620 respondents, but I don't see how they were recruited or how potential bias was accounted for. Given how weird some of the interne…
Sadly, even a small, concerted group of violent actors can terrorize a society. I don't think the paramilitary core of the Nazis were a particularly large part of German Society, for example. That doesn't mean that an outright civil war would break out, but it does mean that all it takes is an organized group to upset the political balance, and disturb long respected norms.