[Artemis Webb]

Yeah I remember a bunch of FReepers talking big during the hanging chad phase.

I remember FReepers going berserk over Waco.

I remember FReepers going crazy over Ruby Ridge.

I remember FReepers being CERTAIN that the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building was the battle enjoined.

Never once did this country come close to “civil war”. You can only say we came close if you’re easily impressed by loudmouths with anonymity publicly vouching of their courage.

[APatientMan]

At what point did you realize that radical Muslims were serious enough to attack (and change forever) our way of life?

Me too.

[balls]

“Never once did this country come close to “civil war”. You can only say we came close if you’re easily impressed by loudmouths with anonymity publicly vouching of their courage.”

Agree completely.

[Nowhere Man]

Never once did this country come close to “civil war”. You can only say we came close if you’re easily impressed by loudmouths with anonymity publicly vouching of their courage.

If I may step in for a sec, it took many years for things to build up for the American Revolution and the Civil War. In the first case, the seeds of the Revolution were planted in 1763 when the French and Indian War (or for those folks in Europe, the Seven Years War) ended. The British needed money so they started taxing the heck out of the colonies right away. There was a 12 year span from that point to when the first shots were fired in the American Revolution. The Civil War, it is hard to place, some say the seeds were planted when the Constitution was first put in force but I would have to say sometime in the 1820's after the Missouri Compromise. That's a 40 year period to 1860. I think for this conflict, although it goes back 100+ years with the progressves but I think there was an acceleration from the mid 1960's onward although we did back off the pedal a bit during the Reagan Era and somewhat the same under G.W. Bush. Under Bammy in the White Hut, I fear we are pushing it to the floor.

This stuff is hard to predict when things will start to fly apart, SHTF if you will. However, it will one day. Ever play the game "Ker-Plunk" where you put sticks in the hollow plastic tube and then put in marbles? The players take turns pulling out the sticks, a marble or two will fall, maybe more, maybe none but there will b that last stick where when you pull it, all the marbles will fall. We don't know how many sticks we can keep pulling till it happens but we know Bammy is pulling a stick, then Holder, then Sotomayor, then Pelosi and so on.