The signs give cause for concern. America suffers from societal and political conditions that predispose it to violence, and the list seems to be growing.
The Pentagon avoids politicization, and it would resist a civil war.
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And the shared national experience of military service disintegrated with the abolition of conscription in 1973.
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None of this precludes the real possibility of increased conflict. America has a rich history of violence. It is sobering to review the long list of armed rebellions, riots, attacks by and against striking workers and massacres of Indigenous people, immigrants and minorities that mark our history before and since the Civil War. But the historical record seems to indicate that the country has a high tolerance for violence without breaking apart.
conscription is unfortunately not actually abolished, they just haven't started a war big enough with enough public support to use the legal system rather than the economic system to acquire combatants.
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conscription is unfortunately not actually abolished, they just haven't started a war big enough with enough public support to use the legal system rather than the economic system to acquire combatants.
We need a Dave Chappelle "modern problems call for modern solutions" emoji