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Here’s a wonderful bit of wisdom I once found in, of all places, a fortune cookie:

“An empty stomach makes a poor political advisor.”

We now have a political environment in this country where, if what you wanted came to pass, we’d quickly end up with martial law, because the cities would be burning. Or we’d end up with a declaration of martial law and then a collapse of military command structure, followed by all-out race wars and/or a civil war. This ain’t the US of A of the 1930’s. There won’t be “shared hardship” and “all we have to fear is fear itself.” We have a cancer abroad in the land who would try to turn the situation to their advantage with force, and they’ve deluded themselves that they could succeed because they’re an exceptionally noisy minority. As some point the majority’s patience will snap, and the balloon will go up.

Civil wars are expensive and highly destructive.

If that’s what you’re advocating, then be honest about it.