Given the constraints, limits or whatever, you only have 2 viable political options (for Americans).
No one is saying you have to play into this narrative/game - it's entirely up to someone to play some other game; to expand on the given circumstances they find themselves in ... except the alternative to choosing, in this situation, between to viable options - in effect rejecting the premise of two viable options - is to abandon the vote and take some other course of action.
I only see civil war for Americans if this is the outcome.
No one is saying you have to play into this narrative/game - it's entirely up to someone to play some other game; to expand on the given circumstances they find themselves in ... except the alternative to choosing, in this situation, between to viable options - in effect rejecting the premise of two viable options - is to abandon the vote and take some other course of action.
I only see civil war for Americans if this is the outcome.