night_son
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- Jun 12, 2018
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No, and I'll tell you why.
During the spool up to the first and only American Civil War two distinct political powers emerged, the North and the South. Each political power raised or already had massive standing armies over which were appointed proven military commanders trained at the best military academies in America. The American army pre-Civil War did splinter and choose sides, but only at the top of the command chain. Lower-level officers and enlisted men either were already members of the Union army or were recruited and trained for the then newly established Confederate army.
In order for a second American civil war to go down, two political sides or powers would have to define themselves, both by political agendas and goals and by region. Each distinct political side or power would need to lay claim to different regions of the present geographical United States. Further, each political side would have to either gain control of the already standing six branches of our military, or convince a number of high ranking already serving military commanders to come over to their "side" and then recruit and raise a "rebel" army.
If we assume the two warring political sides in any second American civil war to be democrat versus republican, then major logistical issues arise when it comes to defining those sides, their political and military goals and the starting territories or parts of the lower 48 they would be in control of at the outset of the conflict. Further, for whichever side (democrat or republican) which declares itself the "rebel side" or insurrectionist side, raising and equipping and training a large enough army to counter the "Union" side would be impossible.
With today's technology and the political left's control of social media, cell phone providers and all other forms of mass, instant communication how exactly would, say, a rebel republican political side, made up of insurrectionists, organize itself, raise an army, train an army etc. without the political left (currently in power) finding out about it and using federal law enforcement and the current military to shut it down?
All of this fantasy lately about a second American civil war is just that: fear porn for armchair politicians and LARPER couch commandos to jerk off to. For some idiotic, unknown reason, Americans who bring up the possibility of a second civil war always seem to think it would mean every AR15 owner grabbing his or her gat and running out into the street to fight. No, children, that's not how it would go down, that's not how civil war works.
Lastly, second civil war hopefuls should stop to remember and think about both our extensive nuclear arsenal, on land and at and under the sea, and foreign powers salivating over the thought of a divided (and weakened) United States of America. I mean, I get it—to some degree. People are tired of the tyrannical bullshit our American government has pulled at every government level and they want to fight for what they believe in. I want that to but it's just not feasible on any grand scale, and it's not gonna happen—not unless one political party or the other lands foreign troops on US soil. Something like that goes down then all options are on the table, including our own government destroying the lower 48 so some foreign assholes can't have it either.
Bloody get real, people.
I don't know that. You don't know that. But it sure sounds like you will throw quite a tantrum if it doesn't turn out that way. Kind of like my 18-month old grand baby.
