Today's event, no matter what your personal view point, was a turning point for sure.
It marks the coming out of the underlying white nationalist (and terrible counter part white supremacy) movement into the limelight. Instead of denying or balking at the accusations, some members of the group that some would call the "alt right" have embraced the racist, hateful monikers and mark a transition point in this country's history.
We have on a macro level a completely ideologically divided country. One half sees this country under the oppression of a white ruling elite, while the other is that ruling elite trying to hang on to any semblance of their own culture and not be replaced.
Within these two broad groups now are SEVERAL splinter groups with varying degrees of extremism in their views, from out right communists on one to unapologetic nazis on the other. So even with the "left" and "right" there are groups who cannot see eye to eye on any issue (ie moderate liberals vs commies, civic nationalists vs ethno nationalists); let alone even TRY to see anything in common with the other half of the country they do not agree with.
Where does this leave us? On the path to total dissolution and civil war which will destroy American hegemony once and for all, and leave a vacuum open for say China and/or Russia to fill in the gaps as the dominant world power.
>but muh right with da guns and da military will win da civil war!
If you guys were actually "UNITED" that could be a possibility. However, just like the left and the rest of the country, the right is just as ideologically fractured and weak. You have civil libertarians, monarchists, anarchists, fascists, civil nationalists, racists, etc... all *LOOSELY* bonded together over certain issues that mostly do with opposing the left.
But today showed that that alliance is much more fragile than expected. If/when Civil war happens, it will be a chaotic and confusing bloodbath with American fighting American.
