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[–]Otacon 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

I doubt it. You might get some widespread riots or at least a whole lot of marches, but a full blown civil war would be damn near impossible. The military has means to suppress an uprising, and the alphabet agencies might possibly have insiders within whatever militia groups take up arms first. That and I think that people are a whole hell of a lot more complacent than we give them credit for. Everybody loves to talk big but the actions rarely follow.

[–]bobdobalina[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

You have one "side" concentrated in coastal cities and the other occupying the entire middle of the country

I am really not sure where a civil war would be fought other than DC

[–]Otacon 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

How hard could it be to lock down one city? A city that has had significant police presence for decades and is in a state with high military presence and significant portions of the intelligence community.

[–]triguntester 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

America is not at risk of civil war for the foreseeable future, and definitely not because of Trump getting impeached. We've been through presidential impeachment scandals before, and many presidents like Nixon and Clinton who were impeached had very good approval ratings while they were in office as well. Trump's approval ratings are abysmal in most major urban centers, which is where most of our military power is located. We'll definitely get protests and riots, and maybe even a shooting or two, but this won't start a civil war. Civil war would require people inside the actual government revolt, not just a bunch of rural Americans that can be easily suppressed by the military.