How Do Civil Wars Happen – Daniel Greenfield

[IsailedawayfromFR]

Two or more sides disagree on who runs the country. And they can’t
settle the question through elections because they don’t even agree
that elections are how you decide who’s in charge. That’s the basic
issue here. Who decides who runs the country? When you hate each other
but accept the election results, you have a country. When you stop
accepting election results, you have a countdown to a civil war.

The Mueller investigation is about removing President Trump from
office and overturning the results of an election. We all know that.
But it’s not the first time they’ve done this. The first time a
Republican president was elected this century, they said he didn’t
really win. The Supreme Court gave him the election. There’s a pattern
here.

What do sure odds of the Democrats rejecting the next Republican
president really mean? It means they don’t accept the results of any
election that they don’t win. It means they don’t believe that
transfers of power in this country are determined by elections. That’s
a civil war.

There’s no shooting. At least not unless you count the attempt to kill
a bunch of Republicans at a charity baseball game practice. But the
Democrats have rejected our system of government.

This isn’t dissent. It’s not disagreement You can hate the other
party. You can think they’re the worst thing that ever happened to the
country. But then you work harder to win the next election. When you
consistently reject the results of elections that you don’t win, what
you want is a dictatorship.

Your very own dictatorship.
https://wethepeopleoftheunitedstates.org/how-do-civil-wars-happen-dr-jack-devere-minzey/

[EdinVA]

A different take...

Civil War was fought for money, power

Like most wars, the Civil War was a war fought over power and money. The South, a political minority from 1830 on, was fed up with being pushed around by the North. The unfair 40 percent tariff on cotton was paid by the five Deep South cotton states which financed 80 percent of the U.S. Treasury. These monies were used mostly to subsidize the industrial development of the North.
The South felt the only way it could change this unfair arrangement would be to legally secede and form its own country. President Abraham Lincoln, a former Northern railroad lawyer, said no. The North could not survive without the cotton tariff and he would do all he could to preserve the Union. He even encouraged the passage of an amendment to the Constitution (the Corwin Amendment) that would make slavery irrevocable until the 20th century in order to entice the Confederate States to re-enter the Union. This was passed by Congress in March 1861, signed by Lincoln and sent to the states for ratification.
Lincoln himself stated in a letter in August 1862 to New York editor Horace Greely, "My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and it is not either to save or destroy slavery."
https://www.aikenstandard.com/opinion/letter-civil-war-was-fought-for-money-power/article_34f45eaa-d3cf-11e7-82f2-2fe1cc2e0f03.html