The universal slogan of war, she’d learned, was simple: If it had been you, you’d have done no different.

This book gripped me.
Telling about an American Civil war in the near future.
How it happened makes sense.
Especially seeing what is happening now and the events that are bound in the future.
It both intrigues me and scares me.
I can recommend this read to all Americans so they can make sure it never comes to pass.

“All these old men want it to be like it was when they were young. But it’ll never be like that again, and they’ll never be young again, no matter what they do. And it’s not just ours that do it. It’s theirs too. Imagine if the North had just let us be. Imagine if they didn’t fight us tooth and nail, kill all those innocent people, just to keep us from having a country of our own and doing things our own way—would it really have been so bad? No, of course it wouldn’t. But it wasn’t that way when all those old people that run everything were young, so they can’t let it be. But you and I”—she pointed at the children playing on the street behind her—“and them too: we’re young, and we ain’t bound by what they bound by. We’re gonna pull the power from their hands, because when it comes down to it, they don’t really care ’bout the Red. Only thing they ever cared ’bout was themselves."