CMV: The people saying "It feels like we're heading for a civil war" have no idea what a civil war is like

So many people in the United States are saying "I feel like we're heading for a civil war" just because people of different political leanings are being rude to each other.<br><br>People in Bosnia, Congo, Sierra Leone, etc. know what a civil war is like. It's when the neighbour you grew up with kills your dad and burns your house so you have nowhere to live and nothing to eat and no way of defending yourself. If you're lucky enough to make it out, the only thing you can take with you are the clothes you're wearing, and you'll sit and watch in the dry, stenchy heat while smoke rises from the only home you've ever known.<br><br>Or it's being a child soldier and accidentally killing the family member you were sent to fight for from the other side, and wondering if you'll be executed for the mistake you made.<br><br>A civil war is when a bridge that used to be a place for fishermen to get food for their families becomes a place where people are thrown to their deaths into the river.<br><br>It's when someone who was a school teacher is stabbed by a machete in front of a crowd of dancing/screaming people for the crime of being a member of political party X. <br><br>Or it's when a group of civilians is rounded up and shot in a ditch, and the soil is packed down with a steamroller to pack down the bodies, as if that could ever pack down the memories.<br><br>You can hate Democrats/Republicans all you want, but if you reach any other conclusion than that your life is amazing because you're not in a civil war, then you have no idea how fortunate you are to live in the United States right now. It's the safest and wealthiest it's ever been, and if you're complaining about "the other side" then you have no idea about the world around you.<br><br>EDIT: I think the word "entitlement" is a good way to describe what I have in mind when I say CMV. It's when people throw a tantrum because someone is disrespecting the flag/neutrality/freedom/republic/democracy. A real civil war destroys the meanings of all of those 5 things for millions of people.<br><br>EDIT 2: The closest the United States has been to that level of civil war was the Civil War, and the closest it is now is a Twitter fight over Trump.<br><br>EDIT 3: When I say "people in Bosnia, Congo, Sierra Leone, etc. know what a civil war is like", I'm referring to the acts of violence described above that millions of people there experienced. When I say "You can hate Democrats/Republicans all you want, but if you reach any other conclusion than that your life is amazing because you're not in a civil war", I mean that I consider you as one of the people who don't know what a civil war is like so you can't compare today's United States to a real civil war.