How to Prevent a 2nd American Civil War

Bullets fly overhead.

“Take cover!”

Up ahead you see your drunk friend Fred throw a grenade, “To whom it may concern!”

Pop.

Pop.

Pop.

He collapses and looks at you, “Tell my family I love them.”

You kneel beside him and say, “I wish I could buddy, but we killed them too.”

How did we get to this?

There’s no one path to Civil War II, but here’s what I think would be the two most likely scenarios…

Scenario 1: Theft

The opposition promises to throw the incumbent in prison if they win.

Lock him up! Lock him up! Lock him up!

The incumbent believes them.

He then plays to the public’s fears by saying that if he peacefully transfers power to the opposition he doesn’t think they’ll transfer it back when they lose so to preempt this he not so subtly “rigs the election.”

According to a survey, 69% of the “political obsessed elite” think it’s okay to steal an election if they knew they would’t be caught (this result is so explosive it should be verified by additional surveys but nonetheless we can apply it to this…