For this meetup, we’ll be discussing America’s internal instability. Issues include the factors contributing to the instability, the degree to which this is new, and how the instability might evolve in the future.

Suggested (and optional!) reading or listening (Thanks for these, Le!):

• “We Are Living in the Age of Civil War” by Barbara F. Walter
• “The American polity is cracked, and might collapse. Canada must prepare” (The Globe and Mail)
• “The Great Rage” (The Atlantic)
• “Roe v. Wade opinion and other hot issues could exacerbate The Big Sort” (St. Cloud Times)
• It Could Happen Here podcast
  • From Le: “the creators have noticeable left wing biases, the creator is an anarchist and works with bellingcat. It’s mainly the first 10 episodes or so that is about a civil war 2″
  • The whole series
  • The episode “Civil War 2.0 Goes Mainstream”

Please feel free to come to the meetup, even if you don’t do any (or only some) of the suggested reading. These are just starting points to get the discussion going and are by no means required.

We will be meeting here at 2pm on Saturday, 6/4:

South Loop Strength & Conditioning – upstairs in the mezzanine
645 S Clark
Chicago IL 60605

If you have trouble, text/call Shane at 608-436-1809.