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Do you think another civil war can happen in the US? (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by Zeon@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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People keep saying this and I personally don't really believe it, I think there could be a couple riots, but not like a full on civil war. What does everyone think?

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[–] grue@lemmy.world 70 points 8 months ago (2 children)

The only reason they did as much damage as they did, was because actual law enforcement reinforcements were not called in on time.

Let's be clear about this: law enforcement was minimal to begin with, and reinforcements were deliberately refused, because the people in charge of them were trying to help the coup succeed.

[–] Lifecoach5000@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

I heard he was too busy watching television news coverage to be bothered with all that.