Well said.
Folks almost romanticize this as if it would play out like Blue vs Gray soldiers lined up on a grass battlefield. It's not happening that way. We are far too integrated politically across the urban/rural landscape. It would look like guerilla warfare throughout.
And there are also far too many assumptions on where the military would factor in. There would not be a wholesale desertion, although there would be some, which could be offset through conscription or foreign aid. All depends on who the military takes orders from, if they don't even become a power unto themselves. In which case this whole left/right paradigm loses its focus if both sides find themselves fighting the military and/or an international coalition.
So, let's not forget the rest of the world. This country is far too critical to world stability for the rest of it to sit back and let it burn. Some might want to stabilize the situation but others would see it as an opportunity to step in and exert control.
There is no telling how something like that would go. It would be the mother of all shitshows.
I can't figure out why people think a civil war here would go any differently than any other place on the globe. Crazy.
