We are in a civil war right now. It hasn't quite come down to open shooting in the streets, but it is still going on. The struggle is to keep it peaceful.
Right.
That must be why the American people peacefully and democratically elected Obama three months ago (the exact opposite of what you had been predicting for a year, incidentally).
The only people talking war are you fundamentalists, and there aren't enough of you to start a war on termites.
Very close to half the country is not interested in accepting his leadership which is why there are so many gun sales. obama wasn't elected with an overwhelming mandate, but a barely squeaked by majority. And, that didn't count the people who didn't vote at all.
That said, it's not the government that's a driving force behind a civil war, not now. Not in this case. It is a deep and very personal hostility among the populace who want nothing whatsoever to do with one another. A civil war is not the same as a rebellion against the government. Right now, the progression is that both liberals and conservatives are hardening their divisions. They have their own media, their own schools, their own workplaces, their own communities. In some cases, their own states. Liberals intend to encroach and are encroaching. They more they do, the more opposition they will get.
This can only go so far. The left envisions the French Revolution, that's their ideal. They can't imagine that it may not go that way.