[Kitsune9tails]

In my experience, the people who are talking about a Civil War are not talking about a Civil War. They are talking about domestic terrorism.

In order to have a Civil War, you would need at least 20% of the US Military on your side. If you actually intend to win, you have to have at least 60% of the Navy on your side.

This is simply because the Navy can wipe out any city on Earth that is taken by a resistance force with nuclear power, with no chance of said city retaliating. They can do this for YEARS with only stops to resupply food anywhere in the world.

You're going to start a civil war? Where are your airplanes, tanks and armed drones? What are you going to do about the navy? What are you going to do about drone swarms? What are you going to do about satellites?

Now maybe a large enough well organized militia, with the cooperation of the local police, might be able to take a small town and hold it, with the threat of ending the lives of locals if the authorities intervene, but again, that's domestic terrorism, not war. Maybe that would even go viral and lead to the taking of a handful of towns, but you are not going to take Atlanta, let alone DC.

Maybe Texas and Alabama and a few states will even vote to secede from the Union (again), but IMHO all that would do is trigger a mass exodus from their cities, which would ruin them economically.

All of the people that I have questioned about this fall into a few camps:

1) *If Trump is reelected, the Leftists will try to remove him from office via military coup.* These folks apparently think that Trump Supporters will hear this on the news and then somehow teleport into the oval office and fend off the 'bad guys'. Either that or they think millions of Trump supporters will somehow convoy up the highways to DC without being noticed and lay siege until the Lefties are all killed or something.

2) *If Trump is removed from office, whether by losing the election or Impeachment, his Supporters will prevent him from leaving office by military action." These are similar to the above, but now the people using illegal force are the 'good guys'. Again, this somehow involves millions of Trump supporters somehow occupying DC until all of the Lefties go away.

3) *If Trump is reelected, the Lefties will resort to domestic terrorism, and we better be ready.* These guys seem harmless to me.

4) *If Trump is removed, we will have to shoot Lefties until he is reinstated to placate us.* IMHO, these are the dangerous guys. These are the domestic terrorists waiting for an excuse.

A minority of them actually think you can just murder people until the law and the military just give up and make your choice President, because that is obviously easier and better than doing the jobs they were hired and trained for and hunting down criminals and terrorists.

The more dangerous ones are the ones that just want to lash out at society and are waiting for a pretense that doesn't make them evil in their own minds. They are essentially suicidal, because they don't see any acceptable prospects for their lives. Some of these people are already shooting up churches and schools, or wearing robes and pointy hats. They aspire to be Tim McVeigh or David Koresh.

I can only hope that the authorities are already looking for these guys, that they have already infiltrated their organizations and are already monitoring their communications. Which frightens me, because it's like actually hoping that Big Brother is watching.