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To: hmaly who wrote (183051)	2/19/2004 4:04:10 PM
From: SilentZ	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575585

>What great schism exists, that you wouldn't be surprised, if we would have a civil war over it. It's not one thing, it'd have to be a bunch of 'em, mostly becoming split along party lines: 1. Religion/secularism 2. Class conflict (safety nets and the like) 3. Trade 4. Abortion 5. Gay marriage 6. Environmentalism 7. National security 8. Immigration 9. Judicial appointees There are a host of others. None of them in itself could bring us to any kind of major civil conflict, but lumped together, over time (25-50 years), we could get to the point again where the differences between the left and the right become so vast that we have a civil war. I've never seen the country so polarized (and growing moreso), but then again, I wasn't alive during Vietnam. I giggled when Bush and Daschle on the night of the SOU talked about how strong the Union is. It's never been weaker in my (short) lifetime. -Z