Oh give me a break!
The 60s were far worse than these bored people slapping each other around at Berkeley every other week. You just think it is “bad” because the internet brings everyone that got a cramp at a protest right into your home.
When you see cities destroyed and thousands dead, then you will have a real civil war.
Destroyed cities is the reason for the civil war
When you see cities destroyed and thousands dead, then you will have a real civil war.
At some point after being pushed too far, the right, and center, (those too busy making a living to protest) will push back, only it won’t be with picket signs and chants, but surgical executions with military precision for a start, and it goes much worse from there. And don’t misunderstand, I am not condoning it at all, but I do see it as inevitable if present trends continue, so I agree with Dennis Praeger.
But the left shouldn’t fear ‘right wing extremists’, as long as those on the right are not disenfranchised by our system. But the government and education institutions and media better start condoning the enforcing the laws equally, against their ideological comrades or this will get out of hand.
That’s a good point about the magnifying effects of the 24 hour news cycle, the internet and social media. It probably does make things seem much more urgent and dire. On the other hand, just imagine what might happen if something happens to the internet/media and the people that have always had it can’t get it anymore. Not sure they know how to occupy themselves without it.
Here are two points that make me think we are probably not too close, at least unless something changes drastically.
The poorest people are now the most likely to be obese. I don’t think this has ever happened before, it’s like something out of Swift. It’s hard to imagine them choosing the hardship sustained civil unrest would bring, at least while these conditions exist.
Also it seems to me folks would exercise their political options before they take to the streets or whatever. We haven’t had even 65% eligible voter turnout since 1908. This recent Georgia district 6 special election that got so much attention—only 43.5% of eligible voters bothered to vote. 56% of the people who could vote didn’t care enough about it to even bother, and yet it was this huge story that is supposed to predict how the off year elections will turn out.
Freegards