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What a scary thought - makes you think of the build-up of the hatred for Jews in Germany.

Yes it is, and we aren't exactly like Germany which was pretty "undiversified" except for the Jews. Maybe that is naive on my part, had a stomach full of reading the horrors that happened there so just had to quit.

But we are just as human as Germans were and can be manipulated, agitated, brainwashed just like anybody else as a society. We are sooooooo divided, there ain't going to be any uniting even if I will do my little part to try to be pleasant and benign but wary and watchful, some places I no longer can go at night but still pretty much come and go when I please, when I please, sometimes in the middle of the night lol. No politician is going to be able to fix it. People love to hate now. It's become a national sport. Who spouted the most hatred today? (Just left a liberal forum where I lurk where they are, but for a few voices in the wildnerness tearing Palin to shreds).

I'm regularly reading a survival group once I realized how vulnerable I and my family could be, even if we have something like a prolonged power outage, especially in winter. I was never a Boy Scout, but believe in their motto, "Be Prepared". I don't think I'm a fanatic, and am too old and unskilled to do a whole lot of preparedness, but by golly I'm going to start little by little, buy a generator, learn how to use it, buy a crank radio, possibly arm myself with the hope I never have to actually use a weapon, just basic things. Money, I don't know how to prepare for and if it will even be any good. Some have at least temporary escape plans to cabins way the heck out of town, etc., well thought out, practical.

The people who post don't *all* sound like a bunch of nutcases, just some rugged individuals who want to be prepared in case as they say WTSHTF. In my eyes, some are even taking a risk by posting there. I'm learning a lot by lurking and reading about skills I never developed or even imagined; some above my ability to grasp and act on. They know how to take generators out of cars and junked campers and make them safe and cheap to generate enough power to run a lot of things in their homes, I'm not talking computers and TV's, things we need to survive. There's nutty stuff, but a lot of smart ideas being shared there. There are some things you simply cannot prepare for.

It's a darn good mental exercise. We have lost many of the skills of our forefathers, a lot of us don't have networks of people we can depend on, and have become pampered even though some of us are near poverty-stricken, others never giving a thought to what they would do if (speaking for myself & family), not most FReepers.

I AM TOO DEPENDENT ON OUR INFRASTRUCTURE and have allowed myself to become so even though I have a few skills the young 'uns would laugh at and wouldn't have a clue.

I am no prophet, and what's on this thread may not ever happen without martial law being imposed (that could be bad, too). But I figured it all out by myself years ago, nobody planted the thought in my mind. If we have another depression like in 1929, people aren't going to line up and play nice, polite and patient like most were then, even hobos (lots of basically decent men down on their luck and no jobs) wives could hand food out their back doors to them without being very afraid.

My son who has never been particularly civic minded is with his pretty gf and young son and was in South Chicago today, Obama country, helping pack and load supplies for Gustav victims if needed, very hot, hard work. He told my daughter on the phone tonight they were the only whites, and the blacks were really looking them over. I was asking a zillion questions. The blacks were helping, too. My first thought was, I hoped they were out of there by nightfall. Forty years ago I wouldn't have had thoughts like that . . . .