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In reply to the discussion: The next civil war is coming. It is almost inevitable. [View all]RegexReader
(416 posts)If you're thinking that the US Army is going to blindly shoot down the Tea Party, you really need to take a look at the demographics of the typical 11B(infantryman). You would be asking them to shoot their own grandmothers. If anything, such an event would cause the US Army to consider its oath to the Constitution very seriously and regard those that ordered the massacre to be wolf bane and would support them in restoring order with their choice of POTUS placed in the Oval Office.
All of this is just mental masturbation to think that the conservatives would start the violence. If they were prone to violence as a lot of poster's fantasies indicate here, there would be bullet ridden smoldering Prius's with Obama stickers littering the highways and byways of America right now. If anything, the conservatives have a lot more to fear from the left given that everyone of the mass shooting sprees in the past 10 years were done by someone with progressive views or grew up in a house with progressive parents.
What you should fear is that someone that has what would be regarded by the Tea Party as extreme leftist views posted on their FaceBook and other social media do a mass shooting at a Tea Party demonstration. Have 20 or so grandmothers gunned down and their grandkids just got back from Afghanistan. Then have some news commentator comment that 'they had it coming for being extremist'. Yeah, like my grandfather warned me off when I was a small boy, "Never start a fire that you cannot put out."
The focus needs to be on what everyone can do to heal this rift rather than wonder where/how far it can go.