I can see a con-con which is denounced by broad segments of the population as something totally bogus, from a banana republic, and the results ignored.
That's a great opening chapter for CW2, BTW.
Thanks. Personally, it gives me the creeps, but I'm not sufficiently limber as to be able to stick my head in the sand and pretend that the obvious isn't... obvious. (And it seems pretty obvious to me that "the chessboard" is moving into position, so to speak.)
I can see a con-con which is denounced by broad segments of the population as something totally bogus, from a banana republic, and the results ignored.
That's a great opening chapter for CW2, BTW.
IMO a civil war has already begun, with the homosexual "marriage" thing. It's not "anarchy", as several people have termed it. Nor is it "civil disobedience", as its practitioners have presented it. It's an act of civil war. There is no other rational way to view it.
Anarchy is the absence of laws, regulations, licenses, and so forth.
Civil disobedience is when the civil population (i.e., non-government folks) refuse to obey a law that they believe is morally wrong -- and, are prepared to accept due process as a test case (i.e., they are civilized about it, and use "the system" to change the law, rather than attempt to simply "break" the system via chaos).
A civil war, on the other hand, is what you have when part of the government breaks away from the rest of the government. And that is precisely what's going on in different locations across the country vis-a-vis homosexual "marriage".
What I find chilling is that "the other side" (i.e., "the rest of the country") is essentially surrendering to these acts of civil war. The responses to date have amounted to some minor hand-wringing, and a "serious look" or two from Bush -- and, of course, the call for a Constitutional Amendment, which, as I've stated before, brings us ever closer to the possibility of a Constitutional Convention.
We live in frightening times. I can easily see things going chaotic in a major way, and very rapidly, with little warning.
And I do not believe that there is anything even approaching a critical mass of people with the wherewithal to hold things together during times of major chaos.
What that tells me is that there may be a very real possibility of our children enduring a society like that depicted in "The Postman". It's seeming less and less like far-out fiction and looking more and more like a possible/probable future history lesson.
This stuff scares me.
I like to think that I am a fairly logical, dispassionate person when it comes to stuff like evaluating situations and projecting likely outcomes. And that scares me even more, given the outcomes I keep coming up with as "likely."
I really don't want to see society come all unravelled. I know that there are some folks sitting on the edge of their seats, teeth grit, saying "Bring it on" in their best Clint Eastwood voices. Well, I'm not one of 'em. I've got a pretty good idea of what "bringing it on" will entail, and in a word, it's "chaos." And that's not anything to take lightly, let alone anything to desire.
I don't have any answers. At least not any answers that anyone in a position to act on them would consider implementing. For example, try this on for size: Suggestion to politicians: stop being such self-centered, scheming, cowardly, cravenly political animals, and force yourselves to behave as statesmen from now on, because your country depends on it.
Yeah, right.
Well, scratch that idea. And short of that fantasy, all I can come up with by way of "answer" or "advice" is stuff like "hold on to your hats, tighten your seatbelts, bumpy road ahead. Fallen rock zone next ten thousand miles."
Well, there's my two cents. The painkillers are starting to kick in again, so I'll proabably be going soon, gonna try to catch another few hours of sleep. Catch as catch can.