Supreme Court rules that anyone arrested may be subject to a strip search

Bee

Sort of.  The ones that don't are usually branded some kind of traitors by their colleagues and constituents.  The Republican party is largely a lockstep cabal that's long since viciously alienated anyone who isn't, and the Democrats throw such a shitfit anytime a Democrat agrees with a Republican on anything that they're rapidly becoming that way too.

Like, in theory there's still this ongoing delusion that people like moderates who can pick and choose on stuff instead of blindly voting party lines, but in practice they just polarize more because the majority of the party does agree on any given issue, even if each person has one or two disagreements spread out across their platform.

MadassAlex

An armed revolution might actually work if the military sided with the people rather than the government. It might sound kind of silly, but it's happened. More likely, though, the military would fragment into conservative and revolutionary sects. 

I would certainly prefer peacable means of change, though, and I echo the sentiment that if civil war is being given actual thought, it's a pretty dark reflection on where policy has taken us. 

Earl_of_Sandvich

Oh, goddammmit SCOTUS!  The Supreme Court has made poor judgments as of late (one sole exception being the Brown vs. EMA), but this one is just downright appalling.  This is right up there with Citizens United, Gonzales vs. Raich and the Dredd Scott case.