50 Signs U.S. Is Moving Toward Civil War

The only way to avoid civil war is to recognize early and ominous developments and to take steps to ensure the potential for violence is not escalated but reduced.

50. Opponents of abortion have long said that it’s the modern moral equivalent of slavery. Those who favor abortion rights think the Supreme Court Dobbs decision taking away a national constitutional right is morally equivalent to the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act which made human enslavement the law of the land and was a central cause of the Civil War.

    49. Donald Trump uses Hitlerian language to purposefully divide the nation, to condemn his opponents as “vermin” and to describe illegal immigrants as “poisoning the blood of the nation.” He has pledged to deport all 11 million undocumented immigrants. This would require routine round-ups of people without documentation, putting them into mass transportation, or worse, railroad cattle cars, and ushering them to the border. What happens when demonstrators seek to block these deportations?

48. Texas Governor Greg Abbott is attempting to take control of immigration away from the federal government, in an action many pundits are saying could become the modern equivalent of South Carolina bombarding Ft. Sumter in 1861. He has ordered state authorities to arrest migrants at the border. He also ordered the Texas National Guard to block the U.S. Border Patrol’s access to migrants, physically preventing federal officers from performing the duties assigned to them by Congress and the president. As a result, a woman and two children drowned in the Rio Grande near Shelby Park, a 47-acre public park, in Eagle Pass, TX. on January 12, 2024.