31% Think U.S. Civil War Likely Soon

[edpc]

Most voters fear that political violence is coming from opponents of the president’s policies, just as they did in the second year of Barack Obama’s presidency, and nearly one-in-three think a civil war is next.

Thirty-one percent (31%) of Likely U.S. Voters say it’s likely that the United States will experience a second civil war sometime in the next five years, with 11% who say it’s Very Likely. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 59% consider a second civil war unlikely, but that includes only 29% who say it’s Not At All Likely.

Democrats (37%) are more fearful than Republicans (32%) and voters not affiliated with either major party (26%) that a second civil war is at hand.

http://m.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/june_2018/31_think_u_s_civil_war_likely_soon

[edpc]

Personally, I fall in the 'not likely' column, but I do believe we'll see some pockets of violence in the 'resistance' at some point this year.

[cato potatoe]

The kooks have always been around.  We just see them now, with the tabloid journalism.  TV viewers eat it up, going from one crisis to the next.  Anything to keep that adrenaline pumping.  They won't join a shooting war though.

[Sanguine]

I wonder why dems think more so.

[edpc]

I wonder why dems think more so.

Given today's events, I'm guessing their 'very likely' numbers will have increased by Friday.

[guitar4jesus]

Doubtful...... very doubtful.

[Old Sarge]

Personally, I fall in the 'not likely' column, but I do believe we'll see some pockets of violence in the 'resistance' at some point this year.

I am 100% certain that we are already in a civil war NOW.  TODAY.

The opening shots were fired in Ferguson, MO and Baltimore, MD.  The race rioters are the shock troops.

We are simply now in that phase which was called in 1939-40 the Phony War.  Every school shooting spawns an event which could escalate into violence - the Left is gnashing at the bit to be unleashed.

Every social incident (such as somebody being refused service at a restaurant, or being forced to bake a cake) ratchets up the rage.

If you are looking for the answer to when it gets hot, watch for the trifecta to occur:

* a financial panic;
* race riots started by another high-profile incident;
* another mass-casualty event involving firearms.

Look for these, all at once or in rapid succession - the Leftist rage from these will trigger the inevitable.

As James Woods admonished us recently:  Arm Yourselves, and Vote. 

[Jazzhead]

A civil war?  That's ridiculous.

Political cycles in this country are quite predictable.   The Dems will gain seats, probably in sufficient numbers to thwart the President's priorities.  As a Republican,  the bummer is that we've done so little with the transient majorities the voters gave us.  We will regret our inability to compromise with ourselves for years to come.   

[darroll]

Who burns the cities and raises hell?
How can you work eight to five and have a demonstration every week?
It's not the conservatives.
It must be the rent-a-mob.

[Old Sarge]

Who burns the cities and raises hell?
How can you work eight to five and have a demonstration every week?
It's not the conservatives.
It must be the rent-a-mob.

[skeeter]

I wonder why dems think more so.

Easy - their agenda can't win elections. Folks are on to em.

What else do they have?

[IsailedawayfromFR]

A civil war?  That's ridiculous.

Political cycles in this country are quite predictable.   The Dems will gain seats, probably in sufficient numbers to thwart the President's priorities.  As a Republican,  the bummer is that we've done so little with the transient majorities the voters gave us.  We will regret our inability to compromise with ourselves for years to come.

Your 'Ridiculous' cost the lives of 620,000 soldiers in the line of duty and thousands more civilians the last time some thought it 'Ridiculous' to have a civil war.

Your attitudes do not square with history and are, in fact, pure conjecture.

[INVAR]

Your 'Ridiculous' cost the lives of 620,000 soldiers in the line of duty and thousands more civilians the last time some thought it 'Ridiculous' to have a civil war.

Your attitudes do not square with history and are, in fact, pure conjecture.

As I have learned from reading so many more enlightened individuals who assure us that history and human nature does not apply regarding what happens in America.

Things like that simply cannot happen here.

Because we're Americans and none of that applies to Americans.

[edpc]

Back in 1998, former KGB analyst Igor Panarin predicted the US would Balkanize by 2010 into regions like this.  It didn't happen.

[skeeter]

Back in 1998, former KGB analyst Igor Panarin predicted the US would Balkanize by 2010 into regions like this.  It didn't happen.

The Russians have always coveted all that Bering Sea Gold.

[thackney]

Back in 1998, former KGB analyst Igor Panarin predicted the US would Balkanize by 2010 into regions like this.  It didn't happen.

Believing Utah and Idaho were going to take sides with California, as well as Tennessee and Kentucky to join New York and Massachusetts, tells me he did no more research than look at a map.

[thackney]

The Russians have always coveted all that Bering Sea Gold.

Well, except for the time period around the late 1860s...

[goatprairie]

While my view that another shooting civil war is highly unlikely, I still dream about forcing liberals to live in a socialist country for a period of time.
The more fanatic liberals i.e. leftists would be running things as they usually do in socialist countries...which the new lib country whould soon descend down to.
I don't think too many libs currently enjoying the capitalist-made high life would like living in Venezuela Norte. Having all their wealth snatched from them by the takers would mostly likely finally make libs see what would happen when the takers take over from the producers.

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

My opinion kinda changes on the subject often. The US has, as the President in Austin Powers said, "nukes up the ying yang" which also sorta makes a civil war unlikely. But political violence doesn't have to take the form of a civil war. I could see running street battles and massacres, that sort of thing.