JRH 10/24/19
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Are We Heading Toward Civil War? A New Poll Shows Voters
Think We’re on The Edge
By Matt
Vespa
Oct 24, 2019 3:05 PM
Soldier silhouette amidst barbed
wire - Source: AP Photo/Brennan Linsley
The American Civil War was brutal. It remains the bloodiest
conflict we have ever fought. It defined the nation and left an imprint that
remains to this day, but it was for the better. For starters, the rigid
regionalism that was heavily entrenched was washed away. Americans viewed
themselves as…Americans, not Virginians, Alabamans, Georgians, or New Yorkers
first. The U.S. as national identity was forged out of the ashes of this
conflict. The United States was 34 states at the outbreak of the
war. Its conclusion saw it become one nation. The notion of military officers
resigning their commissions to join their state’s secession efforts is alien
today. It was not back then. We share common principles; we’re also a country
where folks move more frequently. There is mobility. But that doesn’t mean that
a sizeable slice of the population that wants to annihilate the other won’t be
any less destructive.
The ties that bind us together, the notion that we’re one
country united, has been a buffer for the vicious divisions that led to our
civil war. Yes, there were many other issues as well, but you can discuss that
among yourselves. With recent surveys showing how liberals and conservatives
value different cultural norms and view the other as alien, are we on the path
toward another destructive conflict between the states? The lines would be
different. It would probably be the coasts versus the rural interior instead of
north versus south, but I digress.
Oftentimes, people roll their eyes when others spout new
civil war talk or armed rebellion against the government, but nearly 70 percent
of Americans think we could be reaching that point according to a new poll.
The Washington Examiner has more:
Partisan political division and the
resulting incivility has reached a low in America, with 67% believing that the
nation is nearing civil war, according to a new national survey.
“The majority of Americans believe
that we are two-thirds of the way to being on the edge of civil war. That to me
is a very pessimistic place,” said Mo Elleithee, the executive director of
Georgetown University’s Institute of Politics and Public Service.
And worse, he said in announcing
the results of the institute’s Battleground Poll, the political division is
likely to make the upcoming 2020 presidential race the nastiest in modern
history.
In June of 2018, Rasmussen found that 31 percent of
voters felt a civil war was possible within the next five years. Maybe this
thing is being overblown. It’s a highly divisive time. Tensions and emotions
are running high. Will cooler heads prevail? I don’t know. All I know is that
this nation became after our first civil war. Slavery was abolished, and the
national identity we know today emerged from one of the most brutal moments in
our history.
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