Is the US heading to civil war? It seems that the level of polarization is increasing and violence is increasingly seen as justifiable if it is against the other side.

Thoughts? It feels a lot like the Weimar Republic

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OP, maybe. Rs are devolving into the mess that assaulted the Capitol. That faction doesn’t care about reason or facts. They think government and “the media” are the enemies and don’t care about the rule of law. They aren’t persuadable. And they have lots of guns and lots of allies in law enforcement and the military.

I think the military writ large probably ends up siding with the republic, but that’s fewer people than the Trumpy army. I have a safe full of guns and ammunition …. Not what I had hoped to be doing at 57 but that’s where we are. Thanks for nothing, Buchanan, Nixon, Reagan, Atwater, Cheney, Manafort, Stone, Norquist, Reed, Gingrich, DeLay, DeMint, McConnell, Trump, the “Freedom Caucus,” the “Tea Party,” and MAGAs, among others. You f’d up the world.

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BLM riots kinda prove the left doesn’t care about violence.

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The January 6th insurrection also showed that all R's approve of rioting the Capitol of the nation. Astounding logic there.

So much denialism by the left on how they did not support the violence over last summer. Glad to see that actually as it means they actually don’t approve of violence I guess.

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P1, I agree. In that case, the truth lies with MSNBc, which would still be between the right and left. I didn’t say it was always in the middle, just that those are the two edges.

Separately, I’m actually glad to see people focusing more on facts in this bowl and trying to substantiate their claims.

Where are you seeing violence against the other side justified? I am afraid of it happening but I’m not seeing anyone calling for it or justifying it.

Then again, I’m a leftist communist socialist liberal socialist Antifa anarchist socialist, so maybe there are such people but I just don’t run with them.

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I think most of the cranky is relegated to the right. That said, there are at least some parallels with the Weimar Republic that trouble me

Unfortunately, it generally takes a crisis for significant course correction away from extremism. That crisis can be external or internal, and America’s enemies have learned that a house divided against itself cannot stand. Feed conspiracy theories and destabilize, Americans may do the rest.

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This. Also, the right is only getting crazier and crazier. The pressure will just keep building until there is an eruption that releases the pressure and then followed by a return to normal. However a lot of damage would occur before the return to normal.

Def seems likely everyday

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Pretty sure it is, yes. It’s terrifying.

It is what it is. Can't do much for one side that aggressively believes what they want including debunked conspiracy theories and ironically think something has been taken from them.

The left basically justified lighting fires to public property and looting private businesses so nothing is off limits for them.

Not at even close because an overwhelming majority of the people arguing the loudest are too old to fight.

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