America Is In Civil War. (How We Can Defuse This, Together.)

Brad Porteus
8 min readAug 17, 2020

The other day I predicted to a friend that depending on the outcome of the November 2020 presidential election, America could be on the brink of Civil War.

But, as I thought more, I realized we are already in Civil War. Today’s weapons of choice are more memes than muskets.

The polarization and division of our population is as deep as the Union and the Confederacy in the 1860s. And the stakes are just as high, with the future of our country, culture, and society hanging in the balance.

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Brad Porteus

GenX. Distraught by polarization. Turn ons: frisbee, time lapse photography, the moon. Turnoffs: alarm clocks, meetings, hypocrisy, truffles.