[dmix]

> I've had Americans seriously tell me that the country is on the brink of civil war

It's probably not a good idea to make value judgments based on the predictions of people obsessed with hysterical political news sources by companies who have make a living selling the public a worldview divided on stark black/white us vs them tribal lines. Where every minor bit of inane news coming out of Washington is blown up into big stories to fuel some grand political drama that never ends.

Meanwhile the world IRL for the vast majority has hardly changed at all in any significant way.