Article: The Coming Second U.S. Civil War? No. We are in it. - War is common to the only self-destructive species, Homo Sapiens (refs. in the text). There are two kinds of intra-species wars, one between various politico-economies, and the other within the same. The latter are called civil wars. They are always fought over irreconcilable differences between selectors within one nation-state. It is postulated that within the U.S., there are those irreconcilable differences. Ergo civil war
Article: The Coming Second U.S. Civil War? No. We are in it. - War is common to the only self-destructive species, Homo Sapiens (refs. in the text). There are two kinds of intra-species wars, one between various politico-economies, and the other within the same. The latter are called civil wars. They are always fought over irreconcilable differences between selectors within one nation-state. It is postulated that within the U.S., there are those irreconcilable differences. Ergo civil war
Barbara F. Walter, a political scientist at the University of California, San Diego, has interviewed many people who've lived through civil wars, and she told me they all say they didn't see it coming. "They're all surprised," she said. "Even when, to somebody who studies it, it's obvious years beforehand."
With the country polarised and Republicans embracing authoritarianism, some experts fear a Northern Ireland-style insurgency but others say armed conflict remains improbable