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R.T. just a few comments.

1. Godless, atheist Soviet Communism was an evil structure and deserved to fall. As you say it’s rapid demise was not predicted. There was also the role of Reagan and JP II.

2. It is not merely a battle of men, but of principalities and powers. Our best and first ally is God. Second, God-fearing, good honest and principled people.

3. There are too many variables to have a high confidence level in a prediction such as yours. Some of the variables are not and cannot be known. What unknown Black Swan events might cause a rapid shift in public awareness, for example? Your comments serve as a cry of warning, to be seriously considered. But far from a hopeless conclusion of collapse.

4. W. F. Buckley remarked that he would have despaired, but to despair is a mortal sin . . .

5. Strategy comes before tactics. The tactical usefulness of e.g. criminal gangs is irrelevant at this point, and projected alliances with criminals violates #2, above.

6. We fight the battle that is present. Strategy includes taking “targets of opportunity” — such as presented by a Black Swan event. Right now we have two Black Swan events which should not be wasted: the Planned Parenthood videos of evil exposed; and Trump speaking out. Those are discussed on other threads.

I do suggest that doing everything we can NOW to eliminate at least some of the EVIL of abortion will do our Great Republic immense good, perhaps even changing the trajectory of your impending crash. In the event, the bikers have lawyers and justice is grinding along for better or worse; while Human Persons are being dissected for their identifiable organs.

Respectfully, in service, etc.

1. Godless, atheist Soviet Communism was an evil structure and deserved to fall. As you say it’s rapid demise was not predicted. There was also the role of Reagan and JP II.

Yes, and Thatcher as well.

2. It is not merely a battle of men, but of principalities and powers. Our best and first ally is God. Second, God-fearing, good honest and principled people.

God fearing, good, honest and principled people are simply chaff to be burned up and blown away in the ashes of the killing pits if they are not armed and ready and protected by more men who are armed and ready.

It is easier to disrupt the initial course of a tyranny than to recover and overthrow it when well established. You go to war with the army you have and you build your insurgency with the forces available, even if they be bandits and burglars.

3. There are too many variables to have a high confidence level in a prediction such as yours. Some of the variables are not and cannot be known. What unknown Black Swan events might cause a rapid shift in public awareness, for example? Your comments serve as a cry of warning, to be seriously considered. But far from a hopeless conclusion of collapse.

This is a point on which we can disagree. I believe we are in the pre-impact stage. There can, of course, even be white swan events - your earlier example of Reagan, John Paul II (and Thatcher) is a lovely white swan. But hope is not a strategy and neither is luck.

4. W. F. Buckley remarked that he would have despaired, but to despair is a mortal sin . . .

Despair is not what I feel for the country, and certainly not for human freedom. Simply judgment based on history, human nature and the realities of nearly $20 trillion in debt, the Islamic State, the cutural and political idiocy of the electorate, and the death of strong character in the average ignorant citizen.

5. Strategy comes before tactics. The tactical usefulness of e.g. criminal gangs is irrelevant at this point, and projected alliances with criminals violates #2, above.

You're thinking of strategy for rebuilding. I'm not actually referring to that. I'm referring to surviving the immediate post-impact melee, when there's a brief vacuum of power. That's when power gets seized, and without armed power on the ground, already organized and ready, you end up losing the moment, the initiative, the nation and probably your life.

6. We fight the battle that is present. Strategy includes taking “targets of opportunity” — such as presented by a Black Swan event. Right now we have two Black Swan events which should not be wasted: the Planned Parenthood videos of evil exposed; and Trump speaking out. Those are discussed on other threads.

Well, yes. If the hydroplaning stops and you suddenly have traction again, it makes sense to steer.

I do suggest that doing everything we can NOW to eliminate at least some of the EVIL of abortion will do our Great Republic immense good, perhaps even changing the trajectory of your impending crash. In the event, the bikers have lawyers and justice is grinding along for better or worse; while Human Persons are being dissected for their identifiable organs.

The Planned Parenthood debacle is indeed a potential game changer, but we'll see. I'm sanguine about the election as well, but absolutely am enjoying Trump's progress.

I understand, I believe, where you are coming from: you want a moral nation, restored by moral people, under moral principles. I do too. We may have to settle for not even getting a nation at all.

Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.