Pretty sure the monied interests have no desire for civil war — the opposite was the case in the mid 19th Century.
True, really a lot. In needs a nation on the edge for it to decide to turn on itself. And a nation on the edge it is.
> Pretty sure the monied interests have no desire for civil war — the opposite was the case in the mid 19th Century.
And so thought monied interests of the Old World when a wave of civil wars sped through the continent, and the Spring of Nations happened after few decades of turmoil.
And historians err here, taking desirable, for believable. "The Two Terrible Decades," aren't called that for nothing. They were devastating for both of Europe's Old, and New Money. It were the same upper classes socialites who wrote the term in the history books after all.
It would help if there were some geographical lines, as well. Are you envisioning the next civil war will be simultaneous sieges of all the major cities in the US?
No, most likely the same North-South split, with a bit of interior, vs exterior element to it.
Plus, when the shit hits the fan, the reasonable among us seem to suddenly conclude maybe we don't really care to fight about this. Yesterday is a classic example. These folks at the capitol like to think they were going to start the war and everyone else would join in. What really happens, of course, is that they find out how limited their numbers are, and that regular people will simply direct the police to squash the insurrection.
And this divide lines uncannily along the lines from centuries ago.
What is the biggest social crisis there now, for every opportunistic force to take advantage off?
One need to be very, very blind not to see it coming, especially living in a major US city.