I'm not worried about a civil war. I'm worried about a Northern Ireland "Troubles"

[NickB79]

Where the far right becomes the IRA, using bombings and targeted assassinations to further their goals.

Thoughts?

[Cirque du So-What]

1. Are the troubles not a civil war?

Seems like one to me. I could see those tactics being used in the US.

[NickB79]

4. I've seen it called a "cold civil war"

As opposed to an all out, state vs state hot civil war.

[Thekaspervote]

2. Agree!! Isolated attacks, but deadly

[GoneOffShore]

11. We've had those for years. McVeigh, Bundy, et al.

[Hekate]

3. Long term destabilization. Resentment & hatred carried from generation to generation --

Kind of like the South?

We don’t have to go down this road, but it always exerts a siren call for some elements of American society. But we don’t have to listen: we have choices.

[unblock]

5. You mean violence against minorities and women?

And that would be different from the whole of American history how?

[AleksS]

6. Also, I don't think the radical right has the support that the IRA had in Northern Ireland.

Compare a Tea Party "rally" to a BLM rally. At the end of the day, if you pulled out the folks who could only terrorize places that had ramps for their Jazzy Rascal Scooters to access, it's not a big, or bright pool of people.

While for a VERY short time, they could do some violence, they would be stomped flat quickly and securely. There's a lot of tough Trump "Talkers," but there aren't nearly as many tough Trump "Do-ers." And of those, there are even fewer who are actually able to "Do," no matter their willingness. And of those willing and able to "Do," it's a much smaller subset of those that would be able to actually "Do" anything competently without getting themselves caught beforehand by posting their plans to Facebook, or Conserva-twitter (whatever that was called.)

So yeah. They could TRY to start a Northern Ireland style "trouble," but it wouldn't last and would only succeed in removing those radicalized right wingers from the streets and getting them in jail or in cemeteries.

[Fiendish Thingy]

7. The US has far greater intelligence capabilities than Ireland

If they can track down Bin Laden, they can snuff out domestic terrorists, if the political will is there.

[liberalmuse]

8. These people can't even wear a mask for several minutes.

They don't have the stamina. And they won't want to mess with liberals. We're pissed!

[GoneOffShore]

10. That made me laugh! Thank you! Just posted this on FB -

It's tough to sort pmurT's supporters out - they're a weird inter-species combination of sheep and parrots - bleating and squawking at the same time.

Parrasheep or Sheeparrots?

[roamer65]

9. I'm more worried about a Yugoslav style breakup.

Complete with genocide...on both sides.

[doc03]

12. The Trump nut cases around here think we are going

to be invaded by blacks from Pittsburgh or somewhere who knows. People have thousands of rounds of ammo and military rifles stockpiled for when "they" come. The black population is vey small here they have to be coming from somewhere though.