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Things are very heated right now certainly. But there are still a lot of people (a LOT) of people who just want to live their lives and are not going to literally wage war on people in their own country.
It's not a zero percent chance but it's near zero.
I certainly hope so, but one side (which I won't name because I think it's obvious enough) doesn't seem content with just living their lives, they want to force themselves on the lives of others as well so that the whole country will be just as shitty as they are and then they won't have to feel so bad about it.
Yeah that part is scary. But even that side (which we won't name) has a significant number of people who, while they have bad opinions and want bad things, don't actually want the level of insanity and violence we have seen from supporters of a certain unnaturally colored presidential figure.
I have real hope that people are figuring the problem out soon enough that they can solve some of this through increased voter turnout and higher engagement. If we'd gone another decade of complacency we'd be in a lot worse spot because many legitimate avenues of combating oppressive policies might have gotten blocked. But as it is, people can still effect change. That makes actual civil war unlikely, at least for now.
Most americans think the "sides" are red vs blue, which is absolutely 100% wrong in all ways. So as long as that belief holds true a civil war is impossible.