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Civil war in the United States is now a mainstream topic due to apparent signs of ongoing planning. This book reveals why by identifying four major ideological drivers of possible conflict, ten arenas of ongoing nonviolent civil war that have become increasingly foci for micro-level violence, a dozen alternative scenarios in which civil war could break out very soon, and how the country might prevent calamity.

Anarchists, Christian Nationalists, libertarians, and triumphalists are determined to impose their views on the diverse nation and reduce opponents to second-class status. They demonstrate their blatant determination though nonviolent political contests
involving conspiracy theories, cultural differences, verbal contestation, anti-elitism, racism, well-armed groups with nationwide membership, political demonization, media disinformation, Congressional hyperpartisanship, reducing constitutional rights,
and legal fights by some states against others. But often they go beyond and commit violence out of enjoyment in making opponents suffer. Polarized American Democracy suggests remedies for each of ten types of nonviolent civil war, but most are
long-term solutions than cannot deal with an imminent threat. Accordingly, the book reviews governmental and military resources as well as efforts to counteract the ideological contest through political innovations.

The analysis here flows from the sociological Mass Society Paradigm, which argues that democracy's survival depends upon the ability of civil society to relay the needs of the people to institutions of government and provide effective pressure for corrective action. As developed to explain the rise of Nazism in Germany, the analysis applies lessons from studies of coups and civil wars to identify how to prevent the loss of democracy in the United States.