As an onlooker -

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1. That's a complicated question.

One of the greatest journalists to ever live, Carl Bernstein, said that we are currently living in a "cold civil war."

However, I do not believe it will ever become anything more than that. Given how intertwined Republican and Democratic areas of this country are, a hot civil war would not only be messy but unacceptably devastating to the humanity of everyone involved.

My blood brother is a Trump Republican. I disagree with him vociferously, but I would never wish him death.

If someone thinks they are ready for a second U.S. American civil war, they should ask themselves this question: would you shoot a member of your immediate family and feel nothing?

If the answer to that question is yes, then you, and you alone, are ready for the kind of horror a civil war would bring. But even among those who might say , "yes," online, deep down, and in real life, they know it isn't true.

War is awful. It really is hell. War is an image you cannot unsee.

For me, the image that defines civil war the most in my mind is the image of a Sirian man eating the heart of another man he has just killed. Who would ever wish such a horror on our country? No matter how much some of us might despise Trump's actions and policies, we do not despise our country.