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Reality check: In the United Snakes we are in a country where the voting public thinks we are 66% of the way to a civil war(see below). The class war is already underway, as the bosses scoop up more and more for themselves. Police are already engaging in outright race war, shooting down people of color for nothing. The rich are preparing for "lifeboat" scenarios hoping to be the only survivors of catastrophic climate change setting off migrations and war.

Are people left of the liberals ready for this?

A recent Georgetown Institute of Politics and Public Service poll found that the average of all US voters considers the us to now be 2/3ds of the way to the start of civil war. Already we have had some very close calls. The worst was probably Charlottesville. Had the shot fired by that KKK member hit someone, the John Brown Gun Club et all would have been forced to respond. That in turn could easily have caused the 3%ers to open fire on them, sparking an all-out infantry battle while everyone else on BOTH sides tried to get out of the line of fire as thousands of rounds were fired. From that point forward, it would have been ON.

There is so much racial, ethnic, and religious hate this war could look a lot like Syria. Imagine Trump is Assad, Pence is the head of ISIS, and at the start of the war we have an Assad/ISIS coalition government. We don't know whether this faction will hold the Federal government or be fighting from the outside (well actually from the inside of the continent, the police, and the military) at the start of the conflict. The 2020 election might decide that question, assuming the campaign and impeachment proceedings don't ignite the whole mess.

No matter how it starts, we soon are looking at a Confederacy in the South, Christian State in the center, Cascadia in the NW, the Azanian Republic in California, and the New England Federation (or whatever they call it). Any progressive zones in the Midwest are in danger of being cut off by Christian State, though a Kobane style stand at the Canadian border is possible. It is a certainty that Christian State will engage in wholesale genocide and ethnic cleansing, and very likely the Confederacy will follow suit.

Worst choice of all might be not to fight, now as it was in WWII. If everyone else does nothing fearing war, the Confederates and Christian State types could well get control of the entire US. Maybe the GOP's 2020 election slogan should be "vote Trump and never have to vote again?"