America’s Next Civil War
– The United States shows all the warning signs of impending social and political collapse
https://thewalrus.ca/americas-next-civil-war
'...Many Canadians operate as if this chaos were temporary, mainly because the collapse of the United States and the subsequent reorientation of our place in the world are ideas too painful to contemplate. But, by now, the signs have become impossible to ignore. The job of prediction, as impossible as it may be, is at hand...'
@jd probably referring to Pinochet.
> A coup would hardly be unprecedented, in global terms: in Chile, in the 1970s, a democracy in place for decades devolved into winner-take-all hyperpartisan politics until the military imposed tranquilidad.