What I found very contrasting is this book: Waging a Good War: A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968.
While today the words and actions of some who use the words “civil war” evoke the image of open warfare, guns, conflict, destruction, killing and eliminating one’s opponents, this contrasts with the tactics used in the civil rights movement of my youth that used nonviolence as the pre-eminent strategy to achieve their goals and actually counter the violence that was perpetrated on them.
For the civil rights movement their weapon of choice was peaceful protest. Their training was in de-escalation. Their rehearsals and indoctrination for those protesting was to not react to the violence perpetrated on them.
On the other hand, those thinking “civil war” today are stockpiling ammunition, going to firing ranges to practice shooting and gearing up for the physical combat they expect will come.
