A Second Civil War?

Trump is not done. It seems obvious that he will do whatever it takes to retain the presidency.  I mean there are no limits.  There are rumors of another attack on the Capitol on January 17.

Keep your head in the sand and it will all work out

Is the United States of America on the verge of a second Civil War? Was the invasion of the Capitol the first act of that war?

A day before Capitol attack, pro-Trump crowd stormed meeting, threatened officials in rural California as reported in the Los Angeles Times. Dozens of people, unmasked, to vent their fury entered a Shasta County Board of Supervisors meeting.

“When Joe Biden’s long winter sets and the dark night comes in this country, do you think you’re going to get to see the dawn?” Timothy Fairfield, 44, of Shingletown asked the supervisors. “No, you will not. Flee now while you can. Because the days of your tyranny are drawing to a close, and the legitimacy of this government is waning. “When the ballot box is gone,” he added, “there is only the cartridge box. You have made bullets expensive. But luckily for you, ropes are reusable.”

The Washington Post reports “Police departments across the U.S. open probes into whether their own members took part in the Capitol riot.”

Concerns about more violent incidents appear to be well-founded. Calls for widespread protests on the days leading up to the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden have been rampant online for weeks. These demonstrations are scheduled to culminate with what organizers have dubbed a “Million Militia March” on Jan. 20 as Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala D. Harris are to be sworn in on the same Capitol grounds that rioters overran on Wednesday.

Is this the end of the American democracy?  It appears millions of Americans are willing to follow the leadership of an autocrat.

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