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In other places there has been discussion of civil war, of what happens if the center cannot hold.

I have some ideas on this (I'm against it. I've made several speeches against it at Making Light One (buried in a long thread, and lots of the pieces worth reading; in this context for more of my thinking on the subject. It's in the interplay between myself and Lance) and Two which is a specific comment on lots of things, some of which are going on; still).

So, in the event that peaceful means can't correct the course of state, and some more drastic means is employed... how do you see the situation resolving itself?

What happens should the body politic reache the breaking point and chooses to excercise its right to "alter or abolish," the Nation as it is presently configured?

I'll give my ideas later, when the rest of you have chimed in.

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I'm thinking SWAT and other paramilitaries, all over America, and no clear State-level rallying cry. It can't be passed off as States' Rights. So I'd be thinking of Quantrell rather the Lee. And Civil War supposes an opposing leadership, even if it's a guerilla war.

It would be a confused mess, everywhere.