Are you in favor of stacking the Supreme Court?

[Dill]

(10-14-2020, 02:07 PM)hollodero Wrote: Do you think it could lead to the end of the union and a civil war?

LOL No West Coast state would secede, nor would any "Yankee" state--not even Michigan. 

What states would actually secede as states?  If Texas seceded, wouldn't Austin and San Antonio and Houston then secede from Texas?
If Florida seceded, would it do so without Miami-Dad, Broward and Palm Beach counties? Virginia Beach and Fairfax county in VA? 

Where would the lines between states be drawn? Which state would offer to capital the new confederacy--or would the war be a free for all between uncoordinated independents, urban vs rural?

Which side would the US military take? Pretty sure I know which side they WOUDN'T take.

And what "troops" or forces would do the actual fighting?  I don't see millions of average Americans taking up arms to destroy their country.

The closest we could come to a civil war is militia groups in some states attempting state house coups or "marching on Washington," and ending same way John Brown did. If there were millions conspirators In Arizona, Oklahoma, North Dakota, and South Carolina sitting on the fence or waiting for the right movement to join the "race war" or whatever, their first experience of an attack helicopter would make the mismatch plain.

The majority population in every state will side with order, as did Texas during the Waco debacle and Oklahoma after the Murrah building was bombed.

How long or how intense such insurrection would be might depend on Fox and some conservative ploliticos--how soon they condemn the violence, "stand back and stand by!" An insurrection of the sort described would harden people's political views though, with hard rightists seen more plainly as a danger to the nation. If that leads to political repression, it could produce more hard rightists, long-term instability, and an ever more authoritarian central government in coming decades. Not a real civil war though.