I think that it will not be waged between North and South for state rights, but rather between Republicans and Democrats for human rights. It will happen before our 250th anniversary in 2026.
I don’t think we’ll see something like the first American civil war, where it’s a declared war with two armies fighting, but rather an increase in vigilante and extra-judicial action with an increasingly political bent. In fact, I think we’re already seeing the start of this, with little jumpstart paramilitary groups popping up (thus far with little organization or success, thankfully). I think the mass shootings that seem so commonplace now will only get worse. I think the Republican party will continue to silently voice their support through an unwillingness to bring the hammer down on them.
I think all of this will continue until eventually we see another, better organized, more militant attempt at a coup, and either they’ll be successful, and we’ll experience a major governmental shift, probably towards fascism, or they’ll be unsuccessful and the response will be swift and severe and we’ll stamp out all of that BS, or they’ll be unsuccessful but we won’t really do anything to stop it from happening again, and it’ll reoccur again until we do.
Don’t hate me for this, but American news always reminds me of the Handmaid’s Tale and how some people have taken an inspiration from it to make it a reality. With the abortion bans, anti Lbgtq+, the attempted ‘coup’, … It’s starting I guess.
It feels kind of ridiculous, honestly. So much of the shit that’s happened in the last 6-8 years feels like something you’d see in a really low budget movie and slam it for in reviews, for the entirely unbelievable plot and too overt villains. There’s no subtlety about it anymore; things that used to be whispered are now shouted from the rooftops and a frustratingly loud minority applauds them while the sensible people quietly stay inside posting angrily on social media. I am just as guilty of that as anyone else.
