Re: America's 2nd Civil War
Originally Posted by
Noivous
Fair enough PG. Reno blew it on that one big time. But what if you get a thousand Timothy Mcveigh's? Do you think that is not possible? Governments also cave-in as we found out with the USSR. And believe me I'm not advocating for secession I just think it's a pretty good debate. But I also believe that it can happen.
Only if those thousands of Timothy McVeigh's get backed by another foreign country with military aid. Like when Russia/China backed Vietnam/North Korea or if you like, when the French backed the Thirteen Colonies during the American Revolutionary War. But that's a long, long shot in this modern era, though.
The 1917 Russian Revolution isn't really a good example compared to the current U.S., because the conditions that caused that was because of overcrowding, destitute living conditions and costly wars. The government back then was different from our own. The peasants and industrial workers were under Imperial rule. So in order for the U.S. to have a Revolution like early 1900's Russia did, those kind of impoverished conditions need to happen first. That's means just about everybody in the U.S. is damn near starving and living in poor conditions with few government officials at the top having a "Let them eat cake" attitude. That's not going to happen so long as capitalism continues and some of the people in the U.S. are living well enough to not care about other people's revolution. Everybody has got to have skin in that scenario and feel the personal impact to want to fight. Too many rich people and people doing well here won't care.
Look this has always been a popular debate among gun right advocates and Trump supporters that claim it could happen if Trump gets impeached or doesn't get another 4 years in office, but the reality is - unless something like the two above instances happen, I hate to burst your bubble but it's a dream and smack talk at best. There has to be the right conditions in order for it to happen, and although anything is possible and your right, there is always a slim chance it could happen, it won't. Not in this day and age.
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