980 Is a Civil War Coming?

<p>America never had “diversity” before, we had heterogeneity; people were forced to conform to the basic values of liberty, work ethic & personal responsibility; the so-called Patriarchy. Even if you hated your neighbor, you could expect them to stay out of your business and carry their own weight. And it used to be taboo to even discuss the possibility of there maybe being another American civil war on the horizon, but the signs have finally become too big to ignore. The two sides, liberty vs. egalitarians, have such contempt for each other; and there's so little compromise between the opposing ideologies, that there's no coming back. Once people get over the jump of thinking civil war is possible, it becomes probable. The only way to stop it is for Republicans to win overwhelmingly in elections, then take over education & media in an attempt to re-establish some kind of universal national identity again.</p> <p>Even if that does happen, it's likely the big Lefty enclaves will become city-States that pass their own laws & taxes, but still remain under nominal federal control like Indian reservations. Their voting would only apply to themselves; they already have Urban Growth Boundaries, and de facto tariffs. Even though they claim diversity, they’re actually quite homogeneous in their egalitarian thinking, with a sense of self-righteous certainty that overcomes all rationality. If they were given Reservation-like autonomy, they would probably take it. Then the most likely scenario will be those cities will deteriorate from the inside until that generation of revolutionaries are pushed out, and if that doesn’t work, at least the violence part of a civil war would be postponed, and the warring factions clearly identified so that people have time to choose sides with their feet.</p>