I don't know who coined the phrase "Cold Civil War", but I remember seeing it several years ago, during the Bush 43 administration.
I've been predicting civil war (the hot kind) from the moment Obama was elected. The reason is simple: When half of the population tries to ram Communism down the throats of the other half, who want no part of it, conflict is inevitable.
I have no patience for those who call Obama stupid or a failure. They are fools. I have always believed that he is deliberately causing as much chaos and destruction as possible. It's the Cloward-Piven strategy on a national scale. Obama clearly hates America, capitalism, and the white race. His every move has been calculated to offend and outrage us whenever possible. He and Michelle live like Third World dictators, in ostentatious luxury, while more and more Americans suffer from the consequences of his destructive economic policies. This is not accidental. They are rubbing our faces in it at every opportunity. You can hear the hostility in his voice whenever he speaks.
He believes that America and white people are evil, that we have become wealthy at the expense of brown people in the Third World, and it is time for us to be taken down a peg or two. This is a commonplace belief among leftists. As an ex-slave said at the end of the Civil War, "Bottom rail on top now, massa." Likewise, every Marxist regime in history has targeted the middle class (aka the "bourgeoisie") for destruction and confiscation of wealth.
The recent efforts to describe Tea Partiers as racists, terrorists, barbarians, and economic saboteurs are typical of leftist totalitarians. They are not just demonizing us; they are dehumanizing us. That is what the Nazis did to the Jews and what the Soviets did to the kulaks. The left is whipping up their supporters into a murderous frenzy against those of us deemed the enemy, namely the white middle class.
I agree that things are likely to come to a head before the 2012 election. Widespread street violence may well give the Obama regime an opportunity to declare a state of emergency and postpone the election for the duration of the "emergency". Alternatively, if that doesn't come to pass, I can see the "flash mob" tactic employed in various places on Election Day to throw the election into chaos. An election with a disputed outcome could also serve to incite violence.
I think George Soros would be very pleased to see the fabric of American society torn asunder. It would weaken us as a nation, which is one of his goals.
I've been saying for years that the only things standing in the way of World Government are the American economy and the American military. It can hardly be a coincidence that both are now under full-scale assault from all directions.