I personally believe that we are on the verge of a civil war. My readers know that I have struggled because it is very hard to conceive of a civil war where the geography is complex. However, precisely such a civil war is going on today in Syria and Afghanistan.
You can see the simple outline of the future geography of our civil war by going to this page which shows the Google entries for each state. These top Google searches show that many people are exploring their options to secede from the United States.
I count 13 states where the population is openly considering the idea of seceding. I see that in 18 other States people are talking about related issues.
That means nearly 2/3rds of American states have a big population that is very unhappy with the current politics of the American union.
To understand what they are unhappy about one need only look at this survey result which shows the level of hostility toward an incompetent White House and associated anti-commerce, anti-gun, isolationist government.
If you have read this far and still have no idea why such a large American population would be willing to seceed, you need only ask your friends what they think about Fox News and Rush Limbaugh. Invariably they will assign a malignant and powerful force to these two entities. Check our malicious president on that subject yesterday, he blames Fox as he often does.
Keep in mind the level of disconnect that Lefty society must have to think that a few million people watching Fox News are a serious problem when Fox is operating as the sole contrast to seven mainstream media sources and local media by the thousands. Fox exists in contrast to a government authorized public media. We have one cable channel versus thousands of Lefty sources. Consider the level of fear this generates on the Lefty side of the civil war.
On the other hand the person the Left hates so much and to whom they attribute so much power is Rush Limbaugh. Limbaugh has 21 million listeners a week. That is a sizable number of people who are on the conservative side of the civil war. They constitute a group of very angry people who listen to a moderate humorous radio personality. It is the content of his reporting not the humorous way he delivers it.
Let's add to this war potential the fact that there has been a rapid increase in purchases of firearms in the past five years since Obama has been president. Roughly 15 million households have bought firearms that didn't have any before.
I think there is a growing probability of hostility on both sides that will generate the new American civil war. Since I am writing this in February of 2014 I suspect that the outcome of this year's congressional election will play a role in the speed with which we reach the tipping point for a civil war. The election of president Obama, in circumstances where he did not appear to be the likely winner, helped create serious conservative antagonism.
A victory of Republicans in the Senate may do something to diminish the civil war potential on the conservative side and increase it on the liberals side.
I have often been right about social movements in the past but I am often wrong about their timing. So I will not venture a guess on when this wrenching of our social fabric will occur.
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The photo of a blonde in a Mercedes needs an explanation. For me, she is a symbol of the first war target. She is rich, which antagonizes the blue Whole Foods Left, and she is part of the ostentatious-rich-who-probably-donate-to-the-Democrat-Party which antagonizes the red Walmart ProCommerce side.