electoralism

US second civil war fantasies and ‘our divisions divide us’ polarization talk really deserve an effort essay. I’ve actually read cover to cover minor Chapo character Kurt Schlichter’s American Apocalypse, which is padded with hundreds of pages of 2010s grievance politics. There’s less a concern with how this would actually play out (see civil war 2024 lol) but instead constant epic or resolving setpiece battles.

Without getting into the weeds this speaks to two things. Violence as a cleansing force within the settler colony. And a new reaffirmed American exceptionalism. This couldn’t happen here (yeah no shit where’s the woke internet poster army to fight the isolated suburban chud army) so we are better than this. Please ignore the escalating violence resulting from anomie, mass shootings replacing serial killers cause we’re fucked up but nobody knows anyone now, constant strategy of tension activities, obvious government lies, etc.