"Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came." Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865.
According to Michael Vlahos, the expert on civil wars, the actual Jacobins are always a small group that want war. But it's the sense of inevitability that it's coming which filters through the general population that sets the stage for the inevitable spark.
I haven't talked much about living through 1968 and the horrors of political assassinations, riots and burned cities, every campus in America looking like Berkley and culminating in me being drafted along with thousands of boys my age. I really thought that if we were going to have a civil war that was the time. Somehow, with the control big tech, education, Hollywood and the media and the Dems have now, the present day feels more ominous. Pray for peace.