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>Things don't necessarily go hot all at once. To me there's no such thing as a cold civil war. If it's not hot, it's not a civil war. The USA has not crossed the line into civil war, it's not too late to exit your echo chambers and start talking to each other again. I wholly agree with that wiki page on debate of a second civil war starting about 2008. Honestly havent seen that page in some time and it's much more verbose. I think from a quick skim it's quite good. "First black president" in the USA was going to be rife with identity politics. No amount of effort would fix this, but you have to deal with the consequences of bringing identity politics back. Not only was there no attempts at all to deal with those consequences... they went even further. Anyone who opposed Obama's policies became a white supremacist. Ben Shapiro for example is a notorious nazi until he was outed as a jew. The next election polling basically showed Clinton was going to crush Trump. The far east blue states showed they were going blue surprising nobody and they declared the election for clinton. Later to find out trump won and the polls were quite wrong. Clinton went around the country and abroad saying trump stole the election. In reality, the rhetoric of calling republicans a bunch of fascist white supremacists made people lie to pollsters. It wasn't safe to admit the truth you were going to support the republicans. They might come for you. Then comes the next election and biden literally said h