If this Liberal vs. Conservative stuff gets any worse, do you think we can have another Civil War??

Question

No stupid answers.

Answer 1

No, just a lot more arguments.

Answer 2

No. The American Civil War was fought over some very serious issues. A pissing contest between liberals and conservatives will not be grounds for open conflict.

Although, stranger things have happened. At least once in history, two idiot nations got into a war started by a soccer game. But I don't think that will happen here.

Love, Jack

Answer 3

No civil war, but maybe a revolution of how we practice being consumers of products and politics. Perhaps the American Public will get more informed about what their representatives are up to. Perhaps they will also be more involved with the issues and candidates so that they spend more than the 30 minutes (or less) in the voting booth. Perhaps they will also realize that the extremes on both sides of the aisle are a small minority of individuals stirring up the pot of controversy because you cannot have a debate when people are moderate (which is a fair representation of most people in this country).

Awhile back, Christine Todd Whitman actually made a profound comment regarding this very issue, in that pundits, politicians and other talking heads, purposely package their picayune pontifications to be provocative (pardon the protracted alliteration), in order to rile up the vocal masses (unfortunately populated by both tow-the-line party loyalists and uncritically thinking ditto-heads), who then become the good rhetoric soldiers spewing the same garbage over and over.
This is only going to stop when Americans wake up, arm themselves with unfiltered and unprocessed news and/or information and refuse to allow this brainwashing to continue.
We need another Howard Beale.

Answer 4

I hope so. There are undoubtably more poor, than rich. As the economy and inflation continue to fall the devision of wealth becomes worse. (In history, that is) people become hungry. When people are hungry, they become angry. Fortunately our government,(Even Conservatives) know this, and offer well fare, in spite of being a capitolist government. I feel like The Clinton's work for the same ghost the Bush family does myself. My uneducated guess would be that the monster is George Sr.
Anyhow, No the rich and the poor are not going to just start fighting in an organized fashion unless they never give us another democrat. You may see muggings, and bar fights erupt more often, but for an all out revolution people have to start starving. people other than addicts. I think it would be fun though, if it could happen. Rich people are so week. I grew up with them. They insult us and hurt our feelings, and make us do undesirable work, and live alone. If we defend ourselves they inprison us. It sucks, and a war would be awsome. The poor always win. (in history) They know that too. (they are smart) Anyway, beside all of that I observe that a lot of rich wemon and sissy rich men want to make a point that they are democrats. I think it is either they have a consiense, or that they are afraid of people like myself. On that, I think that most rich people are raised not to have a consiense.

Answer 5

I think that if this Liberal vs Conservative stuff continues as it does, it will fuel something totally different than a civil war, especially since the US military would step in to quell any fighting. Maybe we're heading for a bizarre kind of Civil Cold War instead: lots and lots of ideological bickering and posturing, like we have now. Eventually, however, I think that Liberals and Conservatives are going to drive themselves into near-extinction as more and more people are beginning to view themselves as Independents since it seems (at least now) that both liberal and conservative views are a bit too extreme for intelligent human comfort.

Answer 6

No I doubt that there ever will be a civil war. At the end of the day, we are all Americans. Right now, the rest of the world doesn't think too much of us. Any of us. It doesn't matter if we are liberals or Conservatives. To the rest of the world, we are plain arrogant Americans, warmongers out to conquer them and take over their countries and rule then, etc..etc..etc...

You just have to look at some of the questions being asked on Yahoo Answer's Politics section to get a feel of how much hate there is out there for us as a people.

So if nothing else, we do have that one common cause, as it were, which keeps us united against the rest of the world. Thank god for that. I pray that we shall always remain that way too. One nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

God bless America, for ever!

Answer 7

liberals and ocnservatives may have differing views on governing but they are not as fundamental as beliefs that caused previous civil wars. Also, both work for the good of the country, they would not go as far as to split it. Thirdly, there are no "armies" or territories defined as being owned by either liberals or conservatives, they work together on many things. For a civil war you need true hatred (which some have) but you also need something and somewhere to fight that war (which we dont have)

Answer 8

No, I don't think there will be a civil war over it. I also don't really think it is getting worse at all. I think most people hover around the middle, and it's just that our current president is a little more on the extreme of conservatism than people in the middle or on the liberal end would like.

Answer 9

No. The Civil War was not caused by liberals and conservatives. What may happen, though, is that the American public will get fed up with the lot of them, vote them out of office, and get new blood in government.

Answer 10

If this Leberal vs. Conservative stuff gets bad enough the country would peacefully split instead of a civil war. It would all be played out in congress like a game of Risk. Then right before it happens everything will work out and we will be one big happy country.

Answer 11

No, there are enough liberals in the South, conservatives in the North, and moderates everywhere to keep a war from happening. Besides, some of the people you see on this board will become adults in a few years and hopefully grow out of it.