If Congress is successful in removing President Trump, will it cause a Civil War-like fracture in this nation from which our country will never heal?

By Brandon Chai, Conservative Leaner living in a Liberal Bastion (with some editing)

I’ve heard a lot of this “civil war 2.0” type talk lately. Even I was guilty of believing something like this could happen at one point.

It is no secret that the political division in this country is pretty high right now. Name-slinging has become rampant. I’ve even lost some friends and stopped talking to certain family members because of it. However, I highly doubt that we will end up having a 2nd civil war right now. At least it probably wouldn’t be a hot war if we did.

The reason: Because father would have to go up against son. Mother against daughter. Sister against brother. Aunt against uncle. And cousin against aunt. Friends would also have to take up arms against friends. Co-workers against coworkers, etc.

I just don’t see this happening.

You see, during the time of the civil war, most families thought the same about certain issues. Whole areas often shared the same sentiments. Most pro-s***ery sentiments were confined to the south while most anti-s***ery sentiments were in the “north”. What we see today is much different. Families no longer think alike. Today, the kids of die-hard conservative parents might go off to college and become die hard liberals. Today, people in big cities tend to be more liberal so if you live in one of those areas, you might find yourself disagreeing with family members from more rural areas.

Also, there is a wide and densely scattered political party affiliation in the US today. So no, if Democrats successfully impeach Trump, conservatives and Trump supporters might get angry for a bit, but it would most likely quickly fizzle out once a new president was elected.

Neither ideological group would get any more angry than they already are at each other. Wh**ever political division can be had has already been created. If the parties aren’t already mad at one another for everything that’s happened just over the last two years, then they probably will never be mad enough, even if Trump were impeached.

In today’s political environment, if you haven’t already chosen hard sides by now, then you probably never will. And for the people that have chosen hard sides, Trump’s hypothetical impeachment couldn’t make sentiments any worse than they already are.

If we were going to have a civil war over Trump, we would have already had one in the last couple years.

We are involved with dozens of partners and allies in Syria, we have major intelligence experts and partner intelligence services involved. No matter what Trump heard from Erdogan he would have some major intelligence briefings from state departments, intelligence, and allies.

No president should ever make a call to a dictator character like Erdogan, Kim Jong Un, or Putin, and arrive at decisions based on anything these people want or recommend. In fact it would be safest to say that wh**ever they want would be the exact opposite of what he should be doing.

What happened to your prediction that "Trump will quit by the weekend at this point!"??? That was on Sept 25th....Got another loser prediction there,huh???

Apologies coos for not responding sooner, but I don't hang on OPP 24/7. I'm profoundly sorry for referring to you as a "libby gun grabber", because if you aren't, please except my apology. All I have to go by is some of your previous posts.

Just exactly what are your solutions through "debate and compromise"? Oh wait, I think I know, Universal background checks (which I agree with) although unenforceable, 'red f**g laws', (which I don't for a myriad of reasons), or banning scary looking black semi-autos.

If memory serves, didn't Slick Willie outlaw the scary looking black rifles back in the 90's? And to what effect?

'Absolutely zero control'? Come on coos. With ten thousand gun control laws on the books throughout the nation; Fed, City, State, County & Municipality, I'm sure one or more of them were violated by the criminal shooters.

Nice heart wrenching lib reference to my children 'holed up' hiding from a mass shooter, which is what you folks do to make a point, and I am indeed sincerely sorry your daughter experienced a mass shooting. BTW, is the Clackamas mall a 'GUN FREE ZONE'? Just curious~