[ WP ] The Second American Civil War . What started it , and who are the two sides ?

Everyone anticipated it. It was boiling in the gutter for so long, entire world was expecting it. Economic failure, corruption of the government by the super-rich and religious fanatics. Public distrust, omnipresent poverty, entire towns run by gangs and mafia. Slow death of diplomatic relations with foreign nations. 
 
 But still, when it happened, everyone was in awe. Jaws had plummeted to the ground all across the globe causing a small earthquake when humanity learned why a Civil War broke out in the prime state of the world. 
 
 They say that war never changes. But no one had seen that kind of war yet. What caused it? Nobody knows. Some say it was the Illuminati, the others say it was the aliens. The only ones that are right say it was an inside job. But I do n't think they understand what they are saying. What do I think? I think that Arnold Schwarzenegger ridiculed Tom Cruise for his believes one too many times, and we all had to pay the price. 
 
 At first it was subtle. Fox News, History Channel. Then all other major media. They became dumber and dumber, constantly rebroadcasting the same episodes and news. The worst was the confusion. Nobody knew if the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941 or last weak. Do you know? Many of us though we did. But nobody is sure anymore... 
 
 Many tried ignoring it, the TV, the newspapers, the internet, the people standing on the street corners. We tried to go back, we tried to be human again, we tried to talk. But anything anyone would talk about were the lizardmen, the masons, the terrorists. Everyone suspected someone of some sort of conspiracy, every family argued weather the largest continent is Greenland or America, weather Africa was an Island, weather Charles Manson is really Micheal Jackson, but do n't you understand that he was Elvis Presley!? 
 
 So we stopped talking. We stopped communicating. Every one of us had created his little world where the sky was made of water, where the moon landing was recorded inside Mount Rushmore, where 9/11 was a heroic mission accomplished by the bravest patriots the land had seen. 
 
 People quickly segregated themselves based on what they believed, created their own small tv networks, internets, newspapers. The arguments continued, and they turned bloody. The only organized group was the military, but they took off their uniforms revealing royal red and started sipping tea in the midst of the greatest slaughter the homo sapiens have conducted.
