Is it time for a new American Civil War?

You nailed it, and yes I feel the same way. However, I don't feel like it will ever happen like that again. People are too pacified by their creature comforts. Change that circumstance and perhaps if the rifts remain there might be a civil war in the offing.

I must point out that you spoke a modern heresy when you said good people fought on both sides of the civil war. You are not supposed to hold the opinion that any person fought for the confederacy that wasn't just there to keep blacks in chains. Every last man was the worst racist imaginable is what we are to believe and promote.

The only respect that existed between the 1860s and 1960s was the fear of the common enemy, the Germans, then Nazis and Japanese in the world wars and then the "commies" for those who bought into the hype. All else was a struggle between the privileged and not. Governments have tried to create an enemy with mixed results.

Wars seldom heal wounds without drastically changing one participant. (See WW2 where Germany and Japan changed fundamentally.) You still see people waving the confederate flag and some doing so keep the original values. I don't think social and political groups act in the same way as playground kids. Quite the contrary. Wars can create bitterness that divide people for generations.

No. I think people need to learn how to respect each other's beliefs and quit trying to use the government to enforce their own personal standards on everyone else. Blood shed will work maybe in the short-run, but in the long-run, we will be divided again. Only when we can learn to respect the rights and liberties of our fellow individuals that we can live in a functioning, constructive society. Even if it means accepting that people will do things you don't like (like enter a same-sex marriage, own guns, smoke a joint, eat fattening foods, etc...).

Plus it isn't just liberals and conservatives. We also have libertarians, moderates, independents, etc... And that's just political ideology. We also have religion, culture, economics, etc... If we want to function as a society, we have to learn to get along. Plus, if we want to stand strong against foreign enemies, we must be able to stand as a unit in dangerous times. Right now, it doesn't seem we would be able to. Or if we did, it would be hard to stay a unit.

No, I see nothing analogous to the regional differences that had made the Civl War of 1861-1865 possible. I do not see the west coast, the northeast, and upper midwest uniting with one another in a war against the rocky mountain, plains, and southern states.

Sorry, but the twisted history you got from neo-Marxists and other bigots in the universities is horrendously distorted most particularly about the Civil War. That war was caused when oppressive tariffs were forced on southeastern states foreign tobacco and cotton trade to feed the huge hordes of my starving Irish relatives flooding into the Northeast. My relatives ravaged the economy there by undercutting wages with their giant swarms of excess labor.

Slavery was a hot issue since colonial days but not the one initiating secession. The war started when the Union prepared to blockade southern ports as reprisal for refusing the tariffs and seceding.

The war was fought mostly by my Catholic Irish relatives sent as cannon fodder by northeastern English descent merchants and financiers (the Marxists indoctrinating you aren't all wrong) to fight my Protestant Scots-Irish relatives dominating the Southeast. After, both Irish hordes -- with help from other immigrant European hordes -- flooded west still spewing babies and swept away the Mongol people here for 15,000 years.

Today, baby-spewing hordes in Asia, Latin America, and now Africa are undercutting wages to starvation levels again. There is certainly again a danger of more civil wars, revolutions, and eventually great wars of conquest. You are watching those begin now as they did a century ago before brand new high-tech industries soaked up the excess labor from the baby-spewing Euro-culture hordes.

When people overpopulate to the point they can no longer take the land and resources they must have just from other species, they must take them from other people.

PS: "Greedy capitalists" do suck workers blood, but they suck it from the floor. Overpopulating excess labor cuts each others' throats by undercutting each others' wages.

PPS: Many of your professors went to school at six years of age but never left. Too many still think like six year old children. They still love the fairy tales with good "witches" and bad ones.

Every culture eventually collapses, all in the same general manner and for the same general reasons. Here is a free book explaining the process and analyzing every cultural collapse in history: http://comingdarkage.blogspot.com/

As for your question, what you do is grab your gun and run into the street and yell "I'm mad as h*ll and I'm not going to take it any more!" If you are the only nut with a gun yelling in the street, it's not time yet. Shut up and go back inside.

The US is far too big to be one united country. Most regions don't agree on many things (South and North are mostly opposite when it comes to fiscal and social issues). It should be split up into 5 relatively large countries (Northeast, South, Midwest, Southwest/Plains, West Coast + Al.&Ha). However a war isn't the answer. Remember what happened last time?

A nation can peacefully divide into 2 Mr. MA in History.

Accept reality of one own's choice or leave them alone. Simple as that. If one believes that life begins at conception, well that's their choice or if life begins when you're born. Let them believe what they want. All I can say is this. "Love your neighbor, yet don't pull down your hedge." - Benjamin Franklin

Best quote ever invented to stop wars/madness.

It is never time for war