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Murtaza Hussain
@mazmhussain
There's not going to be a civil war; not today and not anytime soon. America is a fluid economic and cultural zone without dividing lines that could organize political violence. If you look at data, the most significant form of polarization politically is based on intimate individualistic factors like gender and age. Most importantly, no country with a high per-capita GDP has ever had a civil war. The logic is simple: Even if you're really mad about something in politics, in America you still have the option of watching the football game and going to Cinnabon. The minimal bread of Cinnabon and circus of the NFL is democratically accessible to the masses on a level unlike anything in human history. To the vast majority of people that rationally sounds like a better option than rotting away in prison or giving up ones life or health for some abstract cause. Rich countries don't have civil wars, they just yell alot. Maybe a civil war could be organized in the metaverse one day so people can blow off steam.
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Brendan Forde
@very-bad-acid
I think you gravely underestimate the decline. There are many points in time to look to. Vietnam would be one. Watergate another. October 17th, 1975. December 8th, 1980. October 19th, 1987... There's a resonance returning to America, borne of ill deeds, and the desires of callous men. The America we once thought we knew is a postcard lost in the mail. https://www.gothamcenter.org/blog/a-crisis-without-keynes-the-1975-new-york-city-fiscal-crisis-revisited
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Brendan Forde
@very-bad-acid
Something else worth noting in this very prescient moment is the extent to which power will protect itself. I do not doubt for a moment that the social and political unrest will be intentionally escalated. The state will eat itself before it relinquishes control...
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