Yes. The cycle goes round and round. "Every generation thinks its the last"

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I wonder if that's what the Romans said.

i think although americans seem increasingly 'divided' their won't be a 'civil war' because most of the GOP untermensch are too lazy or stupid to construct anything durable. they are definitely capable of a one or two-off act of 'shit where we eat' style rioting. but to construct anything orderly like an insurgency (if the propaganda they consume tells them to think they are now the underdog), or a pogrom (if their propaganda tells them to think they are the alpha dog), is well above their collective cognitive ability at this point

they are a generation of people that have been groomed to be taken advantage of

they could be tricked into dying in the middle east again but it's not in the oligarchy's best interest to trick them into attacking their own countrymen domestically

too disruptive to GDP

I don't believe this is the only time the country has been so divided, nor that in this day and age, the federal government could be subjected to a war against it by states. It's not the 19th century anymore...the days of muskets and trenches are long gone. Division will likely be cured by the inevitable failure of the two-party system, as each caters more and more to the extreme elements of its ideology, and the rise of a new party that has more centrist views that represent a majority of Americans. If you watch the news all the time and how Congress behaves, you'd think there was a war in the streets between liberals and conservatives, but the truth is the vast majority of people in this country go about their day thinking little about all this, doing business with and getting along just fine with people who think and act differently.

If anyone would like to answer my first question, I'm all ears.

a war for existence will unite

e.g. WWII

When is the last time righties shat where they ate? Pogrom? you've been reading too many fan fictions about hitler trump.

As to the worst case scenario:

There may just be enough righties in leftie bastions (and the opposite is definitely true) to cause chaos.

Consider following these guys: https://twitter.com/hradzka https://twitter.com/jonst0kes

I wonder how this thread's respondents would address the Good Samaritan Paradox.

If anyone would like to answer my first question, I'm all ears.

Okay, now for my thoughts on the media portion of my last post. I'm copying and pasting this from a blog post so hopefully it makes sense out of context.

Is it possible this course reverses direction and media becomes consolidated again? Seems impossible, information is way too bottom up and widely accessible now.

But is it?

The big 4 (Amazon, Facebook, Google, and Apple) keep growing and swallowing up their competition. Jeff Bezos even owns the Washington Post. People regularly get their news from Facebook and Twitter, accessing it through Google Chrome on their iPhone.

I know, these are content aggregators and not content producers like NBC, ABC, and CBS. But what's to stop them from filtering content or eventually producing their own content?

We've already seen Alex Jones' Infowars get banned from pretty much every online platform. If the big 4 decide to ban unpopular messages, they can control the content to make it more bland. They might tone done dangerous rhetoric at the risk of drowning out important dissent. Then most people would be getting their news from 4 main outlets once again.

I'm still not sure if this would be a good thing or not.

i think there is a difference between unpopular and flat out false information so alex got what alex deserved

You are utterly incapable of understanding the point.

Let's just make lying illegal, right? That would just fix everything.