So Democracy - which is what America says it is all about has gone out of the window then? And as for Civil War and Tyranny.........say what!!?

This is the US we're talking about.
THE Great Democracy....not some 3rd World Dictatorship who know no better.
Are you really saying the the sane majority (and I am making an assumption here I know) of the US Population will really go to war with their own Government over this? Really?
OK. You are clearly at one end of the range of views - as you have every right to be, so that's fine and I'm not being critical of that at all - what about those on here who are the middle or opposite side of the argument?