DRUMBEAT OF CIVIL WAR! VIL WAR!
Dangerously divided nation facing disaster
ARMED to the teeth and bitterly divided over abortion, guns, sexual politics and cultural issues, America is being torn apart by a second savage civil war — and the worst is yet to come, warn experts!
In the wake of explosive decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court, politically motivated mass shootings and the
Jan. 6, 2021, assault on Capitol Hill, the battle has already begun and “will be fought everywhere,” says Stephen Marche, author of
The Next Civil War: Dispatches from the American Future. Just as slavery was a touchstone issue in the 1860s war between the North and South, explosive human rights issues like abortion and sexual identity are now fueling the clash between Red and Blue states and “pushing us to turn our differences into armed civil conflict,” according to political pundit Nikki Lee.
In fact, a recent University of Chicago poll reveals 28 percent of Americans — regardless of political leanings — say it might “soon be necessary to take up arms” against the government!
And 37 percent of the 10,000 people surveyed noted they were gun owners!
“The violence is evident
across America,”
Mark Grimm tells The National ENQUIRER. “There are bombings of abortion clinics, the Jan. 6 assault armed attempt to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. If you’re following things closely, there is serious reason for concern.”
The Supreme Court lit a fuse overturning Roe v. Wade, abolishing a woman’s constitutional right to an abortion.
The earthshaking decision immediately triggered laws outlawing virtually all abortions in 13 states while another 13 are expected to follow suit — essentially splitting the nation
— again — into
Red and Blue.
Backlash was immediate with widespread demonstrations by both pro-choice activists and anti-abortionists.
Some protesters even picketed outside Supreme Court justices’ homes. Cops in Phoenix, Ariz., used tear gas to disperse protesters outside the state Capitol — and a crazed motorist in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, rammed his car into an abortion-rights crowd. That chaos follows an estimated 450 marches supermarket and an Uvalde, Texas, elementary school in May. Protesters demanded gun control laws, which an overwhelming
majority of congressional Republicans vehemently oppose. America’s top court, which has a conservative majority appointed by the GOP, also tossed one of the country’s strictest gun control laws and is said to be taking aim at gay marriage and LGBTQ issues.
But clashes over systemic racism, cancel culture, police tactics and a host of other hot-button issues have also put the nation in danger. “I lived through the 1960s, the riots in Los Angeles. I’ve witnessed first-hand violence in the streets,” Texas political pundit Joe Gutheinz says.
“At the time, I thought the country was going to hell and there was no chance that we could ever mend the differences. Today it’s even worse.” Extremists on both sides are taking advantage — and using a new weapon, the
polarize the nation, Lee claims.
Murderous acts of political violence are reemerging, with psychotic Robert Crimo III, who embraced a right-wing agenda, killing seven people and wounding 47 more in a Chicago suburb on July 4. Homespun militias, including the far-right Proud Boys and Oath Keepers who have been implicated in the Jan. 6 insurrection, are openly attacking the democratic process while other antigovernment Americans are secretly conspiring for a full-scale civil war they call “the boogaloo.”
Meanwhile, leftist anarchists clash with police, hurling
Molotov cocktails, wreaking property damage, and even going so far as to declare an “autonomous zone” in Seattle. On July 3, a mob attacked an Illinois state trooper in Chicago — without provocation.
Left-wing and right-wing militants are brawling at rallies and counterrallies across the country, much like the civil strife that preceded rebels firing on South Carolina’s Fort Sumter in 1861. Lee believes the smoldering new civil war will erupt when a localized act of aggression ignites full-scale open conflict. “I know from people I’ve spoken to that they’re just waiting for the first shot,” Lee warns.
With economic chaos and raging inflation helping fan the flames, America has become a tinderbox — but Gutheinz believes reestablishing civility and compromise could still prevail.
“We’ve lost the ability to discuss and debate and not hate,” he says. “It’s something we need to recover.”