Do you think civil unrest is going to get worse in America?

Yes it is and we will do nothing to stop it.

SGT John " Mac " McConnell the article does make some good points. Historically it has been shown that civilizations go through three phases. An emergence, a golden age, and a decline. Sadly the way events are going, the United States is likely in the decline of our civilization. This doesn't mean we don't have great people. It means that our society is crumbling under its own weight. Combine that crumbing with a government that people see as more and more of a hindrance to our nation's success than a guide to success, and you have the powder keg waiting for someone to strike a match. Once that match is struck, change will occur. It always does. Violently if necessary. If you want to see what that collapse looks like, all you need to do is look at the USSR. It collapsed under its own weight, and broke apart. Now you have Putin trying to rebuild Mother Russia. This is going to get interesting. It is going to turn violent. It raises two questions only one of which the article pursued. When will this occur (though the argument should be made that it started years ago), and what will be the outcome. Personally I think that political correctness is the fuse that will lead to the ultimate explosion, and our modern over sensitive society is the match. When plain language and civilized discourse is replaced with entitlement and repression, the fuse was lit. Now it is just a matter of how long before it explodes into rioting, armed conflict among citizens, and chaos. Then it is a matter of what will rise from the ashes. Will we become a stronger nation for this, or will we become the next roman empire, faded to history to be studied by future generations of students.

In a game of chess, we are in the "check" position.......With few moves to make, they had better be the right one's or it will be "checkmate". At which point the situation goes fluid and anything could happen....Just saying, not advocating.

In the News locally....http://thescoopblog.dallasnews.com/2016/04/tense-anti-mosque-protest-draws-armed-demonstrators-in-south-dallas.html/

I know I am ready I hope that every family has a plan to survive such situations.

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yes

We continue to see the richest get richer while the poor are blamed for the fact that the Middle class is also shrinking and becoming poorer. Fascism is a very real threat in such an environment, and I believe it's important that we understand what it really represents. If you want to understand Fascism, ask a Fascist.

http://legacy.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/mussolini-fascism.asp

I don't see the politicians as the cause, but as the symptoms. The issues that divide the country are significant, and run very deep, so deep in fact that compromise is extraordinarily difficult, perhaps impossible without feeling as if we are compromising some fundamental element of self.

Examples: gay marriage, abortion rights and ACA. On these issues, people on opposite sides more strongly identify with the source of these values, than they do with their American identities. As such, there is no room for compromise. The opposing viewpoints on each of these issues, just as examples, have wildly divergent worldviews, expectations and concepts of government, that cannot be reconciled to each other in any real way.

I am deeply concerned with the outcome of this election cycle. If Former Secretary of State Clinton wins, there will be a large segment of the population, who have felt increasingly marginalized and disenfranchised during the Obama Administration, whose anxieties will only INCREASE, perhaps dangerously so, in the event of another Democratic Administration. My concern stems from the fact that some of those folks feeling that way will have spent all or parts of the last eight years fighting counter-insurgencies, and may reach a point where they feel that the Government of the US is no longer ABLE to represent them, their best interests or their most deeply-held values.

That, my friends, would be a problem.

Yes our political system will get us there sooner than later.