America won't balkanize, what will likely happen if it goes to hell is that the Federal Governments authority won't extend beyond the New England region.
You're gonna see local state Judges make rulings like "its okay to shoot FBI agents as their grotesque conduct since 2016 has nullified their legitimacy".
And a bunch of states declaring the democrat and republican party terrorist organizations etc.
When payment professors like Mastercard start having their corporate HQs bombed and governors put out bounties on Mark Zuckerberg is where you need to start worrying about that.
War between whom? As in overthrowing the government? The idea of an effective, violent rebellion against a government is fanciful. The government has a monopoly on military power and logistics, with drone strikes and aircraft carriers and supply lines. The bureaucracy is too large to decapitate, and it fills in positions quickly. It'd be impossible to violently remove the regime through force.
The best you can hope for is that the policies of these governments ends up being what destroys them: they run of money and popular support, and eventually are unable to enforce their rule as localities establish themselves (people paying their taxes not to the federal government, but to their new local state that actually aligns with their values)..
Thats not quite true. It would be disturbingly easy to overthrow the US government.
The problem isn't the tanks and the drones and the aircraft carriers because none of that means a damn thing against America's own people.
The Federal government won't be blowing its own dams and drone striking its own power plants and bombing its own boroughs.
People on the other hand
will do that.
and thats the true horrors of how the rest of the America's fought civil wars.
We didn't line up like polite soldiers and fight each other across battlefields.
We turned our neighborhoods into mass grave yards. Our gyms and movie theaters into torture chambers and our old high-school into literal rape camps.
Thats why the idea of a second American Civil War should be so horrifying to you guys. Not because of some silly notion of the government having a monopoly on force. At the end of the day it really doesn't.
Naw, but because if a civil war happens again the first casualty is going to be Federal government.
And then shits gonna get ugly.
Edit- INB4 "zomg watchdog has advocated overthrow! Reeee"
Grow the fuck up, im not endorsing this.