# Americans: What would it take for you to support another civil war? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 4, 2014, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-what-would-it-take-for-you-to-support-another-civil-war/682806 "2014-03-04T04:57:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2014, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-what-would-it-take-for-you-to-support-another-civil-war/682806/41 "2014-03-05T18:52:13Z")
> [@Reply](#): > > Are there any issues or ideologies that are so important to you, you’d be willing to go to war with your countrypeople over it? Maybe, but I’m not really much taken with the ones listed. In particular: > [@](#): > > - The government raises the income tax rate to a sliding scale of 60-90% Not worried about that, because there is no realistic chance of this happening except perhaps for the top 5% or so of earners, i.e. not me, and people who can clearly afford it > [@](#): > > - The Second Amendment is repealed and all civilian firearms are recalled after a 2-year grace period Again, next to no chance that’s going to happen and since I’ve somehow managed to get though 59 years without needing a firearm for anything at all, I’m pretty sure I can get through the time I have left. My sympathies for all the hunters and target shooters out there, but I’m not going to die so you can put holes in deer and pieces of paper. > [@](#): > > - Gay marriage becomes federally protected and all states are forced to recognize it In my view, this would have no signficiant effect whatsoever on anyone who did not directly benefit from such a law, so only an insane person would go to war over that. Pretty much the same for the rest listed, in part because it appears all could eventually be reversed at the ballot box. Show me someone immediately affected to the point of death or permanent disenfranchisement and maybe I’ll reconsider. > [@](#): > > Or anything else? Would your ideologies ever trump your loyalty to your country – to the point of violence? Re-establishment of slavery? Armed attack by one state (or a gorup of states) on another? Non-electoral selection of a President for Life with simultaneous dissolving of Congress and Supreme Court? That’s pretty much it. Bonus question: If you WOULD support a war, what would your new separatist side be called? [/QUOTE] [Quote] Wolverines!!! ---
**Author:** ![Lowdown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c57346/32.png) [@Lowdown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lowdown)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2014, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-what-would-it-take-for-you-to-support-another-civil-war/682806/42 "2014-03-05T22:50:26Z")
If they told me I could shoot Tea Party/Anti-Gay/War on Science/Rush Limbaugh/Arizona, I would re-enlist by the end of the day. This is in no way an exaggeration. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2014, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-what-would-it-take-for-you-to-support-another-civil-war/682806/43 "2014-03-05T23:20:36Z")
> [@Lowdown](#): > > If they told me I could shoot Tea Party/Anti-Gay/War on Science/Rush Limbaugh/Arizona, I would re-enlist by the end of the day. This is in no way an exaggeration. You know, that would be tempting. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-what-would-it-take-for-you-to-support-another-civil-war/682806.md?page=2)