Photos of immigrant detention centers are being placed next to photos of Holocaust concentration camps.

ICE agents are being called Nazis.

People are saying we are witnessing the rise of fascism in the United States that the president is a fascist

and that the US today is the same as why Mar Germany was before the rise of the Nazis.

The rhetoric is getting more and more extreme and the political factions are pulling further and further away from each other.

Over the past year we have seen talk about the potential for a second American civil war and some people are giving it a really high percentage likelihood of actually coming to pass.

This past month we have seen some articles saying we might be facing a second American civil war.

But none of these are as alarming as the mainstream funded website Splinter News, formerly Fusion, almost getting to that point where it's advocating for domestic terrorism.

So when the rhetoric escalates to this point I have to wonder, are we really facing a second American civil war?

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On August 14th 2017, we saw this article in the New Yorker is America headed for a new kind of civil war.

In the story they say America's stability is increasingly an undercurrent and political discourse.

Earlier this year I began a conversation with Keith Mines about America's turmoil.

Mines has spent his career in the US Army Special Forces, the United Nations and now the State Department, navigating civil wars in other countries including Afghanistan, Columbia, Al Salvador, Iraq, Somalia and Sudan.

He returned to Washington after 16 years to find conditions that he had seen in nurture conflict abroad now visible at home.

It haunts him.

In March, Mines was one of several national security experts from foreign policy asked to evaluate the risks of a second civil war with percentages.

Mines concluded that the United States faces a 60% chance of civil war over the next 10 to 15 years.

Other experts predictions ranged from 5% to 95%. The sobering consensus was 35%, and that was 5 months before Charlottesville.

We keep saying it can't happen here, but then holy smokes it can.

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