11-01-2016, 10:40 PM
(11-01-2016, 04:25 PM)Mikebert Wrote: What do you see as issues, and how would you address them?
Some years ago I wrote a series of posts calling for somebody to advocate for a tariff. I said they may not be a good policy in themselves, but talking about tariifs was definitely a good policy as it would put the fear of God into the elites. Well that has now happened, and it is good.
Next up is more problematic. Simple repetition would suggest some right-wing or Islamic terrorism. But history does not repeat. Of course a financial panic and depression would solve all the problems, but this would be a gift from God. I am not sure God gives a shit about us, but if I am wrong and the Christians are right, then we should get an economic collapse, the sooner the better.
We can hope that the Christians are right, that God will intervene on behalf of America and give us the economic collapse we need, but suppose the atheists are right and there is no God? Then they may well be no panic, no economic collapse
In this case maybe we get violence? The question is who? American Right-Wingers talk a good game but ultimately have no balls. Even if they did, you would think it would be mass shootings, which are zero impact, particularly if the perp is some white dude. Maybe there could be some Islamic terrorism, but I don't think ISIS has the ideological penetration to carry this off. Maybe there will be more cops getting shot, but I doubt it. Unless you have some more McVeigh-type figures using bombs, I can't see anything coming from something like this.
So we are left with slow motion cultural evolution of the mindsets needed to resolve the crisis. In that case we might not get movement on the crisis issues until a decade or more hence, by which time, Dave Horn will be pass the point of caring and I will be getting close that that.
If we get domestic violence, it's more likely to be in the form of assassinations of elites than mass shootings. Then we could get police crackdowns, and in reaction riots that result in burning down affluent neighborhoods. Generalized societal breakdown could follow.
More likely, the elites manage to unite the plebs around some external enemy, like Russia or Islam. If it's Russia, nuclear war likely follows. Not sure how it goes if "Islam" is the enemy.