Posted on 06/04/2019 6:19:05 AM PDT by vannrox
It was actually quite eye-opening how insidious some of the problems were and how things would instantly fly, not run, but fly off the tracks.
Made a nice chunk of change for the work, too.
Very astute.
By 2025 we will be in the Tribulation and most muslims will have been killed in the Ezekiel 38 War.
Yes, it wasn’t merely a problem of the electrical system shutting down. You had the very real potential for extremely serious physical damage to big components like steam turbines and generators. The machines could have been destroyed and might have taken taken years to replace.
It could be.
I was talking about the South in the 1780’s. Loyalists and Patriots both used the pretense of the war to settle scores with their neighbors.
Thanks! Sorry for my Southern paranoia!
True. Most people just aren't motivated.
But the Troubles, yes. If a few flag-waving conservatives would wander into the wrong neighborhood, bad things would happen. If a few antifa types would wander into the wrong neighborhood, bad things would happen.
You're talking about very small groups that might be motivated to get violent. Most people are just "live and let live" types. The "wanderers" would have to be really looking for a fight.
There could be violence if something really divisive happens - another undecided election, a major supreme court decision, a complete collapse of the economy - but most people are too fat and happy. And that's good.
It takes a long time for the kind of troubles familiar from Ireland or the Balkans or the Caucasus or the Middle East to develop. Groups were living side by side, but divided and hostile to each other for a long time. You knew which group you belonged to and people told you your whole life long not to trust those in the other group. I could see outbreaks of racial violence in a few parts of the country, but red and blue Republicans and Democrats attacking each other is less likely.
Now an anecdote: I had to go to a family meeting this week. My brother and I stopped at McDonald's. The TV there was showing Fox News. I was a little surprised, and my liberal brother made some sarcastic comments quietly to himself. But most people just sat there eating their food. This was in a very liberal town outside a very liberal city in a very liberal state and nobody was jumping up and down screaming. You read stories about that on the Internet, but they don't reflect the reality that well.
Great post vannrox. This one has legs. I will be coming back here.
CW2 will go to whoever commands the Warthogs.
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