With you 100% on this one JHC. Anyone who cheers for war (civil or otherwise) has not seen the brutality, waste and sorrow that always accompanies it.
Problem is, with both sides stoking wholesale division, it might be inevitable. It seems that playing to/with the public's anger (pick a topic, any topic ) is the preferred tactic for getting the desired candidate into office or objective on the ballot. Consequences can be a real problem though and I think that the extremely polarized nature of discourse these days is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg. I pray that we never see more than what exists today and that we are at the height of this particular cycle, but my gut tells me otherwise.
Sick of the idiocy in DC and the general tone seen today that tolerance/equality is a 'must' so long as how it is administered is in agreement with the particular group/interest demanding it. Before anyone loses their minds over that; that sort of idiocy exists everywhere and without exception.