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Do you think another civil war can happen in the US?
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99% of people who profess revolutionary politics are full of shit, for what it's worth. It's cheap to talk tough, and not so cheap to actually be in the line of fire, or in jail.
Actual uprisings have a structure to motivate fighters in other ways, be it by greed, ego or coercion. There is no paramilitary branch of the Republican party so far.
While I agree civil war is unlikely, there are paramilitary groups in the republican party, which Frontline investigated.
I could see a more minor version of The Troubles taking place.
Groups "in" and groups "of" are two very different things. The militias that exist are pretty wimpy, and pretty fractured. I'd guess 90% of militiamen are also full of shit, but with more merchandise.
If there was a power vacuum they'd get bigger, but that seems unlikely with so many various established authorities in the mix. I could see them getting coopted into whatever hypothetical faction, though, or just doing terrorist attacks.
Unfortunately, I can't actually see that video.
How do you define the destinction? I assume you're only counting 'in' as officially recognized by the republican party, the political entity?
There's no way those guys vote Democrat, so it's fair to say they're "in" the Republican party, but they're not a paramilitary "of" the Republican party, because none of the organisation and centralisation which makes the Republican party a force crosses over. They're totally separate, and very unofficial - if a pastor or a local politician supports a militia group, they're going to be doing that quietly on their own time. As a result, they all have a kind of "startup" thing going, and don't really have logistics the way a viable insurgency would.
Sorry, I should have expanded a bit more there. Brevity vs. clarity is always a tough balance.