[lj3]

> Honestly, why don't people keep their politics out of the workplace entirely?

Because the US is in the middle of a cold civil war that's heating up fast. Denying your enemy employment and therefore bankrupting them is remarkably effective.

[leereeves]

> Denying your enemy employment and therefore bankrupting them is remarkably effective.

Bankrupting your enemy is mostly effective at further radicalizing them and inspiring violence.

That attitude would make this "cold civil war" a hot war.

[lj3]

I completely agree, which is why I said it's heating up fast and also why I believe violence is unavoidable now. "That attitude" has been prevalent on both sides since Trump was elected and it continues to spread.

[leereeves]

That attitude became prevalent long before the Presidential election. SJWs were calling for people to be fired back in 2013, perhaps earlier. I might also argue that that attitude has been prevalent in some circles - particularly academia - for decades, and spread from academics to their students (the SJWs) to Republican backlash against the SJWs to widespread Democratic backlash against the Republican backlash.

Still, I'm optimistic, because I have seen softening after the recent incidents of violence, and some mainstream rejection of leftist extremism.

For example, this CNN article treating the plight of their ideological opponents with sympathy rather than gloating.

[AlexandrB]

> Because the US is in the middle of a cold civil war that's heating up fast. Denying your enemy employment and therefore bankrupting them is remarkably effective.

Dan Carlin is right [1]. People have completely lost their minds. Whether or not someone has the same political beliefs as you is not an indicator of whether he/she is a good or bad person. This kind of thinking is reductive and scary.

Trump may be a monster, but whatever happened to treating fellow human beings with dignity and respect? Everyone is the end result of a specific upbringing and a specific environment. People don't necessarily vote one way or another out of malice or hate.

[1] http://www.dancarlin.com/product/common-sense-317-shades-of-...

[lj3]

This has nothing to do with whether people vote republican or democrat, or who voted for Trump and who didn't. If that's your entire understanding of the situation, then none of this makes any sense and it looks like everybody involved is crazy. If you want to have any hope of understanding the situation (WHY people are acting the way that they are and WHY Trump was elected in the first place), then you're going to have to dig deeper.

[Balgair]

> cold civil war

1st International Cyber War