What might spark a new American Civil War?

 

As ICE agents now regularly operate as "masked, heavily militarized, and without any visible identification" - ICE officials rationally argue that the masks are necessary to prevent their doxxing or harassment by rationally motivated citizens given repeated video evidence of ICE agents lethal abuse of force. 

But under the our nation's system of the 'rule of law', lawful force depends on legitimacy. And legitimacy depends on accountability. And accountability begins with personal identification. Thus anyone who is empowered to detain, arrest, or to use lethal force must be identifiable by a US government official for whom they are acting.  When ICE officers purposely conceal their faces and perform their  duties without name tapes, tags, or badge numbers, they turned their authority into a terrorizing anonymity.  “And anonymous power is precisely what democratic [rule of law] system is designed to prevent.” Retired Army Lieutenant General Mark Hurtling. Reported in The Bulwark. Jan, 2026

Recently a few US citizens have come out in their own community armed with military assault like weapons. Willing to risk their own lives to defend those they love and the peace their community has had for decades. 

In our accelerating age of fear and the growing threat of domestic and international terrorism, drug cartels, corruption, and lethal threats to our personal and family safety, all in addition to the context that many US states have “stand your ground” laws, this is a recipe for an very uncivil war.  

Prepare for more needless gun violence by innocent civilians caught in the crossfire between Trump’s abuse of power and our U.S. Constitutional rights to have guns for protecting our privacy, family, community security, and our US Constitution.  If a civil war is sparked as our existing political polarization and senseless violence increases, this will likely be the reason. 

So unless anyone who swore an oath to protect the U.S. Constitution takes their oath, the rule of law, and responsibility seriously - and removes the fools from office - with force if necessary - don’t expect this thing to get better anytime soon - on its own. 

After watching a movie last year about a modern US "Civil War" - obviously inspired by our nation's growing anger over political polarization, its premise was TX and CA military forces uniting against an elected and established President using his US Military forces.  Now I better understand how this might happen.  Spoiler alert - most Americans are not physically involved.  But it does not end well for those who hold government power.  

We the people must soon come to realization that our form of government can never achieve any of the seven intentions in its preamble.  Not without Constitutional Convention that puts into legal practice the fundamental principles that inspired the Declaration of Independence and the very birth of our nation's by its first civil war, that involved family against family, nations against other nations, and tribes against tribes.  With Freedom being the ultimate goal. But never achievable and sustainable without virtuous people and laws.  In the Declaration's words, "the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God".  A biological translation; Keep people and nature healthy!  Health of mind, body, spirit, family, community, environment, government, economy...  This IS rocket science. If our species intends to transfer our species to other worlds, if we trash this one, we can't rely on aliens to do it for us.