Is a war about to break out in the United States?
Is American civil society about to implode? With less than two months to go until the US presidential election, it seems that citizens are more divided than ever.
According to analysts, Donald Trump’s candidacy is exacerbating concerns. People fear that a possible re-election will mark the beginning of a civil war.
A study on gun ownership around the world was published by the Washington Post and reveals that there are now fewer people than guns in the United States. A situation that could lead to many excesses… But could this lead to imagining a war? The question isn't a surprising one. The results of a Business Insider poll published in 2020 show that Americans believed, at the time, that a cold civil war had already begun, reports The Daily Digest.
Even more frightening, many Americans, a third of the population, said in 2021 that acts of violence against the government were “sometimes justified”. And isn't it surprising that this thinking was much more widespread among Republicans? In 2020, during the presidential elections, the vast majority of people who voted for Donald Trump wanted their states to separate from the Union, according to a survey conducted by the Center for Political Studies at the University of Virginia. According to the results of the same study, Biden supporters, at 41%, also thought that it was "time to divide the country".
To top it off, half of Americans under 30 and of voting age believe that their country's democracy is "broken". This was revealed by the Institute of Politics at Harvard's Kennedy School in December 2021.
(MH with Manon Pierre - Source: The Daily Digest - Illustration: Unsplash)