Don't worry about the science fiction. In the 70s, my lab director was exasperated at the popular misconceptions about lasers. "Hell, we already have death rays. They're called machine guns. You point them, press the trigger, and they kill."
There is no resistance command structure, so "civil war" is off the table for now. And war with whom? Who exactly is wearing a chest tag saying "enemy'? There is a lot of value clarification that must occur before we can identify irrevocable sides. This is part of the Great Awakening: determining friend from foe, in a world where the challenge is to make the former from the latter. (Don't laugh. It can be done. I've done it in the context of union politics...not the most elegant environment, to be sure.)
I don't think it will be a Hatfield vs. McCoy struggle. I think it will be a massive "come to Jesus" experience and when the chaos calms, it will have settled into those who are more-or-less clear-thinking...and those who are mentally impaired. If you haven't noticed that the left is manifesting antisocial psychotic behavior, then you misunderstand our problem. What do we do when a sizeable fraction of our population belongs in a loony bin?
Don't worry about the science fiction. In the 70s, my lab director was exasperated at the popular misconceptions about lasers. "Hell, we already have death rays. They're called machine guns. You point them, press the trigger, and they kill."
There is no resistance command structure, so "civil war" is off the table for now. And war with whom? Who exactly is wearing a chest tag saying "enemy'? There is a lot of value clarification that must occur before we can identify irrevocable sides. This is part of the Great Awakening: determining friend from foe, in a world where the challenge is to make the former from the latter. (Don't laugh. It can be done. I've done it in the context of union politics...not the most elegant environment, to be sure.)
I don't think it will be a Hatfield vs. McCoy struggle. I think it will be a massive "come to Jesus" experience and when the chaos calms, it will have settled into those who are more-or-less clear-thinking...and those who are mentally impaired. If you haven't noticed that the left is manifesting antisocial psychotic behavior, then you misunderstand our problem. What do we do when a sizeable fraction of our population belongs in a loony bin?