I saw this elsewhere. I've predicted a civil war for a while. My prediction was 10-20 years. regardless of who is "responsible" (hint: It's all of us), the separations on basic concepts may have gotten too far apart. It's sad to see such a great "experiment" crashing with such furious force.

In many ways, I'm curious to see where military and paramilitary end up in this, and ex-military and ex-paramilitary. Hope we never have to find out.

It is sad, but maybe the country as a whole, if it stops being a whole. Have Texas seceded, of course they would probably get most of the center of the country to join them, the east coast can have their left wing nation, the west cost theirs. What Illinois and Colorado and Minnesota do is beyond me, but they have enough people to survive. New Mexico would probably just join Old Mexico and make huge money trafficking drugs and small children for the west and east coasts, so I think most of us would be happier. How we divide up the national debt? That will be a messy business.

I always take polls with a grain of salt, especially when no information is given about who was really answering the questions. This one seemed very lacking in a real cross section of our society. Not only does none of this mention all the antifa violence when discussing the incivility of poitical discourse, they have this line, "Independents, however, placed the blame on social media and President Donald Trump." My personal experience with independence, myself included, is that for being yet another republican Donald Trump has actually been a bit of fresh, honest air in politics. Even when we do not necessarily agree with his tweets we still find it refreshing that someone is honest, and not cow towing to the PC culture crap.

As for civil war, I do believe we are just a few antifa attacks, and tyrannical laws away from a real fight in the streets. Whether it escalates into a full civil war, can be debated, but the more people are attacked by idiots like antifa, while the police are on stand down orders and just watch, or only arrest people defending themselves things will get far more violent. Martial law will be inacted in places, if not nationally, and that will be the deciding moment. I fear far too many citizens are so afraid of a real fight we might not actually have a civil war. Secession may be tried again, if that happens I will likely move to a state doing so, if it is the right state. If California made that move, I would gladly just waive good bye.