![]() And from what I can gather, the spike in the beginning of this month revolves around a recent poll published in the Washington Examiner. The spike in traffic at the end of May is most likely the result of violent protests following the death of George Floyd. civil war 2020” at the end of May and beginning of October. Google Trends shows us evidence of that with large spikes in internet search traffic for terms like “U.S. And I'm going to expose at least one of those groups doing that today. ![]() And that's exactly what's happening: Someone is selling you on the idea there could be a civil war. ![]() A more appropriate term for what people are expecting is "culture war."īut "culture war" doesn't carry as much emotional punch as "civil war" - it doesn't sell as well. Instead, it seems most people talking about and predicting a so-called civil war are really expecting unorganized violent clashes between armed anti-government (the liberals for now) and pro-government (Republicans for now) forces. And from what I gather, there are no expectations of such clear territories this time around. The American Civil War was a war with very defined borders - the North and the South. ![]() It's obvious that anyone predicting a "second civil war" in the United States is trying to conflate the social, political, and economic issues of our time to the American Civil War of the mid-19th century. ![]() Over the past few months and weeks, there has been a lot of talk about an upcoming “civil war” in America.īut what exactly do people mean by "civil war"? ![]()
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