If the right-wing starts a Civil War, how long would it last if we systematically

[Baitball Blogger]

identify retired and acting officers and police officers who participate in the insurrections and terminate their salaries and pensions?

[leftieNanner]

1. Let's Start with Michael Flynn!

Recall him for active duty, court martial him, strip him of all rank and cancel his pension and all retirement benefits.

[zipplewrath]

2. Probably longer

Civil wars are ugly if for no other reason than it isn't really one side against another. You have a lot of fence sitters that will be sympathetic to either (or both) sides. Actions like you suggest tend to push people away or towards the other side. I actually fear that there is a certain element which enjoyed Jan 6 and much like the irish attack on the GPO in 1916, this could be the formation of people who will continue with violent actions for a generation.

[uponit7771]

4. A person acting on behalf of those who attack the US government is "pushed to the other side"?

[zipplewrath]

5. The grandfather

If their eccentric grandfather is the one that lost his pension, yeah.

[BamaRefugee]

3. How would they even identify "The Enemy"? Our Birkenstocks? "My Child Is An Honor Student" stickers?

All we have to do is scramble the Walmart and Bass Pro Shops computer networks, and they'd surrender in a few days.

[hatrack]

6. Or shut down online porn while clamping down on pork rind supply chains . .

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[struggle4progress]

7. Only a handful of loons will want a civil war