My despair about that is that for all but a very few Americans, war has been "over there" for all memory, and they have no clue about how horrible a civil war/war on your own soil is and actually want it.

The war in Vietnam that I marched off to was essentially a civil war that America put on steroids. What I saw was beyond death and destruction. In villages I saw sandbag bunkers next to people's homes. Every day they might come home to no home or family. How would anyone want to live like that?

I could go on and on, but my point is that there is little more awful for the people living in it than civil war where even victory is pyrrhic. Optimism in the face of such idiotic *thinking* (sic) is difficult.

The MAGAs are not the only ones arming themselves, it's an American phenomenon.