To restate something I already posted, because I need to read it again, and maybe some of you do too:

The *reason* that the upcoming administration is bad is not because the blue team lost, but because the red team is going to use power to disrupt our lives and cause pain.

Therefore *all* resistance is, at its root, "living and helping others live un-disrupted lives". Fighting for blue-team wins is a tactic, not a goal.

@glyph The sad irony is that this is the same argument the red team has been using, but about the blue team. The reds have been making this same argument for even longer. And both sides fervently believe their argument. Those who are disrupted, and how they are disrupted, is quantitatively and qualitatively different. And yet those stories of disruption are similarly fearful and therefore motivating to both red and blue.

I don't see how civil war is avoidable. It sadly just seems like a matter of when not if.

@elight @glyph civil war only happens if the blue side learns to actually fight back instead of just inching closer to the center and deploying the usual appeasement tactics.