Jefferson's predictions may unfortunately need to come true."...If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. ...And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants...."
For me I am hoping an objectivist revolution will lead to only a metaphorical bloodletting. I am not confident but I can hope.
Letter Re: Prospects for the Eastern U.S. in a Societal Collapse
Great source of hunker down info if you didn't already know about it. Not saying he's always right but he tends to think things out in a logical matter. I found his two year timeline in the above post interesting...