The US is “closer to civil war than any of us would like to believe”, a member of a key CIA advisory panel has said.
The analysis by Barbara F Walter, a political science professor at the University of California at San Diego who sits on the Political Instability Task Force, is contained in a book due out next year and first reported by the Washington Post.
At the same time, three retired generals wrote in the Post that they were “increasingly concerned about the aftermath of the 2024 presidential election and the potential for lethal chaos inside our military”.
Such concerns are growing around jagged political divisions deepened by former president Donald Trump’s refusal to accept defeat in the 2020 election.
Trump’s lie that his defeat by Joe Biden was caused by electoral fraud stoked the deadly attack on the US Capitol on 6 January, over which Trump was impeached and acquitted a second time, leaving […]
Closer to a civil war than we believe, is true. A Republican co-worker whom I’ve asked several times, to not discuss politics with me, nor send me any extremist propaganda replied with; “Anyone can see, that Biden is the reason for our troubles for the last year. Inflation, gas prices, the pipe being cut, thousands of immigrants in our country receiving free medical, blaming the unvaccinated for Covid spreading when it’s all from the vaccinated having breakthroughs, Biden saying wear masks but he sits with a group of people without one, people being fired in the medical industry for being unvaccinated, overwhelming the hospitals. Biden better worry about Putin, more than Covid. Biden already has us all killed.”
Funny she never mentioned the insurrection or incitement by Trump. But that’s exactly the mindset, that wants a civil war.
I told the co-worker, that she didn’t respect boundaries, and goodbye.
Scary insane.
Fewer guns would be one way to make our streets safer.
Agreed Rev. Dean!