One of the problems with the modern    mindset of 2021, is that it conflates prognostication with advocacy. They are not the same thing; one can predict without advocating that prediction. This Blogger has predicted a Second American Civil War; he does not advocate a Second American Civil War. A Second Civil War would be a disaster; only proving that Abraham Lincoln was sui generis. In a Second American Civil War, the best which could be expected would be another Cromwell, or more likely a Sulla; the worst would be the most probable, a general who sticks the heads of his defeated enemies on pikes, on live streaming television. Take that Paddy Chayefsky (see the film, NETWORK).   Proscriptions were invented by Sulla. He was    a very competent General; notorious for being the first General to hurl the Roman    Army against the Roman Republic. He spent his declining years surrounded by actors who were ancestors of the    cast of POSE or LA CAGE...