Take a moment to let this fact register in your mind. 

This is not a metaphor 

 a figure of speech--we are currently in a civil war against domestic political and economic forces that are killing us and destroying our nation.

     The actuality that a great many Americans are unaware of this new civil war does not change the fact: un-American, power-mad forces are sending thousands of Americans to their death and devastating our nation politically and economically as we speak.