I think you’re confusing people’s online rhetoric with their IRL interactions. If there was no civil war after 2008, there sure as hell won’t be one this time when people are doing better by most metrics.

American’s financial situations are actually quite good right now. Everybody is just anxious as fuck, for many reasons.

An odd thing to say after people spent the last couple summers burning things down

Again, that’s not the first time that’s happened. We’ve had worse and it didn’t lead to civil war.

Think about what a civil war would entail. It is literally war between neighbors. You really think Americans are ready to kill each other en masse and give up everything they have, for what?

It’s easy to make proclamations about some abstract idea of “civil war” but the reality is that most Americans are doing relatively well and would not stake their lives on something that doesn’t even promise a better outcome.

I recommend you stop watching CNN and thinking that's the entire country

Things were fine in my locality, and in the vast majority of localities across the country.

I walk and drive around and don't see much burning.

Listen to my family living elsewhere and you’d think my neighborhood in Minneapolis is still burning.

I think the actions taken in 2008 delayed the effects until... now.

All the insane stuff that's happening and will happen is the hangover of not having a depression in 2008 and delaying it by printing money and propping up banks.

But you can't delay the inevitable.

I am an immigrant and have a large family within a community that would be classified as "lower-income" and I'm pretty in-tune with their perspective. I support my family financially now, and I will be supporting my parents in their retirement. I grew up poor and I understand the anxiety and stress that comes with it. I just recently spoke with my grandmother who is on a fixed income and is having trouble paying for basic necessities because of the recent inflation. I'm not blind to these struggles.

I'm not saying everybody is doing great. I'm saying that if you look at the stats of average American's personal finances, they are in pretty good shape. That doesn't mean there isn't a decent chunk of the population that is struggling. That doesn't mean there isn't a housing crisis across the country. That doesn't mean inflation isn't hitting these lower-income groups harder.

These issues are very real and are a major part of what is making everyone anxious. But in the context of the conversation, people are not getting ready to war with each other.