Wood Goblin wrote: Fri Sep 17, 2021 11:47 am
It will be a second Civil War: a treasonous war, in service of an evil cause, will be launched by southerners, more of whom will die of disease than in battle.
The war in Viet Nam could be thought of as a battled of us vs them that should have brought us all together, but it didn't. Not surprised, though surprised, that the virus plays out in a similar way and along similar lines.
We have been in a Cold Civil war of varying reaches and intensity for years now, decades.
It's getting warm around the edges.
There are arguable geographic areas that might become locations where political conflict and violence spark, something more local than the pilgrimages to Portland or Seattle (and therefore potentially more nasty and desperate), but with some of the aspects of the clashes that have bedeviled those cities (magnets for trouble), but it is not easy to see how real sectionalism will take hold. Tensions are high and too many people think they are under attack (they are being blown up like balloons with such sentiments and concern).