To have a functional and ripping good civil war, you need to have only two sides, each so devoted to their cause that they’re willing to die for it. I believe America is doomed as a nation - so doomed, it won’t even be able to pull off another civil war.
I’m so pessimistic, I feel that even a civil war is beyond our capabilities. I think they’re all being way too optimistic. In December 2021, Harvard’s Kennedy School released a poll that found that a third of Americans under 30 expected “ a civil war” within their lifetimes. The same poll found that two-fifths of Biden voters said it may be “time to split the country.” In February 2021, a Zogby poll found that more Americans believe a future civil war is likely than don’t. Last year, a University of Virginia Center for Politics poll found that most people who voted for Donald Trump in 2020 wanted their state to secede from the Union after Trump was not declared the winner.
In 2020, Business Insider published a poll claiming a majority of Americans felt that the US was already in the throes of a “cold” civil war. It barely has enough energy left to fall apart gracefully. But from sea to shining sea, I don’t think America has enough stability left to pull off another Civil War. By 2030, if not sooner, the country could be governed by a right-wing dictatorship.Īctually, a Right-wing dictatorship would provide far more stability than another Civil War. In Toronto’s Globe and Mail, Thomas Homer-Dixon wrote:īy 2025, American democracy could collapse, causing extreme domestic political instability, including widespread civil violence.
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Two books released in January - How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Themand The Next Civil War: Dispatches From The American Future - seem assured that American Civil War II lurks right around the corner. “Is America heading to civil war or secession?” CNN wondered aloud. “ Is Civil War Ahead?” The New Yorker recently asked.
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My friend agreed, and we moved on to cheerier topics.īut many of the carcass-pecking buzzards in the professional pundit class are not only certain that another Civil War is right around the corner, they’re so perceptive that they know that white people will be to blame for it! And “ racism”! And “ right-wing white men who worry about changing demographics, stagnating wages, and how the shift to a multi-racial and multi-ethnic America will affect them.” I don’t think Americans have their shit together enough to even pull off a civil war. My reply came suddenly and effortlessly, almost as if a higher power had seized my typing fingers:
What are your favourite 2-3 ebooks that come in Kindle format (whether from Amazon or another vendor) that cost 5 dollars or less? (I’m happy to spend more than five bucks on an ebook, but just not this week ‘cos funds are tight.) Tell me what I should buy – and why I should buy it.Michigan Militia members, who will presumably be in the front lines of whatever civil war the US ends up having.Ī friend from Oklahoma recently texted me: Tonight, instead, I’m hoping you can help a brother out with some recommendations. There’s a blog post percolating in my skull about that, but that’s a topic for another night. However, other than blowing my own trumpet about my sudden discovery of a work ethic, I did want to post something else.Īs I mentioned on the weekend, I haz a Kindle! And I’m going to New Zealand next week! And it seems to me that I can combine these two facts and end up with plenty to read on flights and long drives without blowing out my luggage allowance.īut finding ebooks is harder than I had originally thought – or, more to the point, finding ones I want to read in the endless ocean of ebooks that gnaws at the shores of the Kindle Store. So fingers crossed, I should have this draft finished pretty soon and a final, publishable version by early-mid April.īut that does kinda preclude making too many long blog posts, just for the moment.
And having fun with it too, which is pretty unusual for me. Admittedly each chapter is only around 1200 words, but hey, it still means I’m getting it done. I’ve put myself on a tight schedule of banging out one chapter of The Obituarist a night, or at least nearly every night, and so far it’s going pretty well. It’s just going to be a quick post tonight, as I have something else to focus on.
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