[firebrand]

They are ideologues. It doesn’t matter what they are ideological about. You can’t reason with them and you can’t buy them. (Great scene in Zero Dark Thirty where someone thinks she can buy the ISIS guys and another woman is standing well away from the transaction because she know what will happen.)

[MtnClimber]

Michael Yon has probably covered more civil wars in person than any other journalist. He says he has never seen stronger signs of a building civil war than right now in the USA. I posted his article "Hong Kong — echoes — Organizational Structure Dictates Outcome" yesterday. The article is not about Hong Kong, it is about the similarities of the USA and what is happening here to what happened in Hong Kong. That post is here:

Hong Kong — echoes — Organizational Structure Dictates Outcome