A deeply religious conservative America, or a secular progressive America.
Groups are not seeing eye to eye on the fundamental role of government, and lines in the sand are being drawn.
Groups are not seeing eye to eye on the fundamental role of government, and lines in the sand are being drawn.
I don't think the US can have a proper "civil war" there are too many disparate groups.
But then again, Germany was very divided before WW2, so maybe one of these charismatic cult leaders could to come along.
I wish it were that. Having differing opinions on the fundamental role of government would be a good thing in a normal, functioning political environment.
What's going on now is that each side fundamentally believes the other side is rigging the system against them. Trump-siding conservatives believe (provably false, I might add) that the voting system is "rigged". Those on the left believe (but, this is actually provably true) that the voting system is also "rigged", albeit that "rigged" here is exactly how the Constitution intends (e.g. a voter in a small state has a vote worth ~50x a voter in a large state in the Senate, and that the winner of the presidential popular vote has twice in the last six elections lost in the electoral college).
https://brilliantmaps.com/2020-county-election-map/
A civil war isn't "every Republican vs. every Democrat." It'd be rural areas vs. urban ones, and it wouldn't really be a fight. One side has substantially less land, guns, and fighters than the other. It'd be unwinnable.