The Next Civil War With Stephen Marche

CBC Television’s Adrian Harewood, hosts a timely conversation with author and journalist Stephen Marche about his book The Next Civil War: Dispatches from the American Future , a deeply researched work of speculative nonfiction that imagines five chilling scenarios that lead to its collapse, based on in-depth interviews with experts of all kinds.
On a small two-lane bridge in a rural county that loathes the federal government, the US Army uses lethal force to end a standoff with hard-right anti-government patriots. Inside an ordinary diner, a disaffected young man with a handgun takes aim at the American president stepping in for an impromptu photo-op, and a bullet splits the hyper-partisan country into violently opposed mourners and revelers. In New York City, a Category 2 hurricane plunges entire neighborhoods underwater and creates millions of refugees overnight-a blow that comes on the heels of a financial crash and years of catastrophic droughts- and tips America over the edge into ruin.
These nightmarish scenarios are just three of the five possibilities most likely to spark devastating chaos in the United States that are brought to life in The Next Civil War , a chilling and deeply researched work of speculative nonfiction. Drawing upon sophisticated predictive models and nearly two hundred interviews with experts-civil war scholars, military leaders, law enforcement officials, secret service agents, agricultural specialists, environmentalists, war historians, and political scientists-journalist Stephen Marche predicts the terrifying future collapse that so many of us do not want to see unfolding in front of our eyes. Marche has spoken with soldiers and counterinsurgency experts about what it would take to control the population of the United States, and the battle plans for the next civil war have already been drawn up. Not by novelists, but by colonels.
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[@guest5967]

just love how comfortable he is scoffing the red wine and the book is a must read

[@rebeccalara4982]

Thank you

[@chadbadour3980]

More people need to see this and read this book

[@lisaclausen8304]

What is so frightening is if we slide into autocracy, who controls the largest military in the world?

[@chrisgreer5181]

I doubt we'll ever have an autocracy. I expect us to split up.

[@pt68picaso]

The oligart dictator.

[@denasharpe2393]

How frightening is this premise and what can the regular population of mainstream Americans due with this information? Are we destined to face this civil war or can we somehow avoid this outcome?

[@c.taylormorgan3668]

We cannot allow a group of fringe nut jobs destroy lives of over 330 million Americans. I’m terrified. It could totally happen and I’d like to know how to stop it, too.

[@heatherwade2373]

If we keep fighting every single day like we are now, I’d say any time now. This country is a tinderbox just waiting for a spark.

[@c.taylormorgan3668]

@@heatherwade2373 It does seem inevitable right?

[@colecole3352]

@@heatherwade2373 100% Eventually things spill over or pressure gets released.

[@rickrunyon5086]

IF I'm not mistaken the only person that actually lost their life ON January 6th was an unarmed female citizen.

[@pt68picaso]

On January 6th, 4 in the crowd died. SOURCE: Anna Moneymaker for The New York Times By Chris Cameron Published Jan. 5, 2022 Updated Oct. 13, 2022 WASHINGTON - As a pro-Trump protest turned into a violent attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6 last year, four people in the crowd died. Ashli Babbitt, an Air Force veteran, was fatally shot by a Capitol Police officer as rioters tried to breach the House chamber. Kevin D. Greeson died of a heart attack, collapsing on the sidewalk west of the Capitol on Jan. 6. Rosanne Boyland appeared to have been crushed in a stampede of fellow rioters as they surged against the police. Benjamin Philips, the founder of a pro-Trump website called Trumparoo, died of a stroke. Mr. Greeson and Mr. Philips died of natural causes, the Washington medical examiner said in April. He added that Ms. Boyland’s death was caused by an accidental overdose. ...

[@Noodlepunk]

It was but they pretend that doesnt happen.

[@speeddensity9543]

46:40 Stephen Marche never heard of the Oklahoma man, who shot three intruders. kzbin.info/www/bejne/a6vJqqZ-rKyJgNE

[@robertcuminale1212]

A book hasn't the power of persuasion of film? The Bible? Das Kapitol? The Communist Manifesto? Mein Kampf? None of those were persuasive?

[@paleface6563]

I'm surprised at the relatively few comments but at the same time not surprised as an American I found so many misunderstandings of American culture and exactly what America is it is so deep and complex than an outsider could definitely not understand the nuance and the tradition about history our Canadian Neighbors have their own Heritage customs and traditions for sure and as Americans we must respect that if Americans choose to have 400 million plus firearms and I guarantee you people it is way more than that and a trillion bullets and I guarantee you it is more than that we are unlike any country in the world we have a Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms and this right shall not be infringed not by you more politicians or anyone who should try to change America in a way in which we the people do not want consensus is a hard thing to gain surely but not impossible it brings me to the realization of when they asked the emperor of Japan why did you just not invade America and he said because we wouldn't make it 200 miles there would be a rifle sticking out of every blade of grass. the American culture is just that it is our culture it is our way of life if you are someone who doesn't want a gun don't buy one if you were someone who wants a gun go buy one but I do believe you ever responsibility to train with it and I also believe it's your right to go buy one and never train with it and just throw it in drawers somewhere put it up in a safe or wherever you want and hope the hell like you never have to use it but now on to other things our political discourse is great and it is wide and it is becoming greater if we cannot agree on basic facts there is a problem because you are an unreasonable person and I know it is a pointless conversation but also there are too many things to list but I'll just leave you with this much if America is such a bad place and if America is so crazy why do people come here to work across the deserts potentially die fake cartel members thousands of dollars with a risk of having their money just taken as well as their life come from every Walk of Life every country because America still has that promise that if you come here you work hard you contribute to its greatness then it will endure and our way of life will endure and you and your family will thrive there are many great countries throughout the world I believe they all have their own individual things to offer people but you must contribute to society and that would be any society and where you live reside stay love wherever it may be but I know one thing I love my country and America is a great place and we are a good people at least we wish to be and there are only so many lights in the darkness out there and I still believe America is the light that burns the brightest

[@chrisgreer5181]

Short post there, eh?

[@paleface6563]

@@chrisgreer5181 shorter than the interview

[@pt68picaso]

Paleface your paragraph has one period like the American continents, north & south is one land mass covering north & south portions of the Western Hemisphere.

[@stevensexton7038]

He's very bias only can see his point of view

[@chrisgreer5181]

I had to stop watching 15 minutes in. These fellas are clueless about my country. The problems here are not about black versus white, they are about higher taxes versus lower taxes, jobs here versus jobs overseas, more laws versus more freedom. It's right versus left, not white versus black. I'm an ultra-Conservative. Republicans are too far left for me, yet my daughter got pregnant by a black Jew, who came to live here in our house with us. Only one Glenn Beck book is in my house, that black fella brought that Glenn Beck book here. If people in other nations want to act like experts on the reasons for problems in other nations, they should really study that nation instead of getting their info from left wing absurd news channels. These guys should go on CNN, they'd fit right in.

[@carlbecklehimer1898]

This interview really was odd to say the least.🤣

[@IndifferentAgainstTheMachine]

Ill say its farther than you describe. I think its freedom loving , individualists against global socialist/ communists.

[@robertcuminale1212]

@@carlbecklehimer1898 I had a difficult time paying attention to the interviewee. Between pouring and drinking his wine, fidgeting and fussing with his hair there were too many distractions.

[@carlbecklehimer1898]

@@robertcuminale1212 Add in the fact that they really don't know what they're talking about, it's actually pretty comical.

[@kenlandon6130]

Black vs white is definitely one of the many fault lines, and if you think we have reached the post-racial utopia where actually, racism doesn't exist or significantly impact most minorities' lives, you are living in fantasy land. Doesn't matter if an entire political party agrees with you.

[@carlbecklehimer1898]

You guys really don't know firearms.