07-30-2016, 09:00 AM
(07-29-2016, 10:27 PM)MillsT_98 Wrote:(07-28-2016, 04:22 PM)Anthony Wrote:(07-21-2016, 12:42 PM)MillsT_98 Wrote:(07-21-2016, 07:27 AM)Anthony Wrote:(07-19-2016, 02:03 AM)MillsT_98 Wrote: I would hate for that to happen. That would destroy the country, and would send the world into chaos.
No one wants to see that happen - but the destigmatization of treason that the Boom Awakening played host to makes it exponentially more likely to happen.
Yeah but an attack of that magnitude every single week? That's just too traumatizing. It would be a very hard 4T if that were to happen. We would probably not see the country triumph after that.
Obviously 3,000 people won't be killed in every attack. But weekly petrol-bombings of police stations - and perhaps a redux of the Zebra shootings of San Francisco from the '70s, in multiple cities concomitantly?
Quite plausible.
What I was talking about is the large-scale destruction of buildings and its detrimental attack on the economy as well as the loss of lives.
I am sensing a bump in a spiral of violence tied to inequality in the justice system. I'm not sure if it is a short term bump or a sustainable escalation. I'm guessing short term bump, a 'long hot summer'.
There is a tie between the spirals of rhetoric and associated spirals of violence. If the feeling on both sides is 'they got one of ours, we've got to go out and get two of theirs' you get escalation. If that was the message being pushed on talk radio, the internet or even the political conventions, I'd expect shooters on both sides of the spiral to pick up on the message, the mood of the country, or at least the mood of the vocal extremes of the country, and enact it.
Instead, I'm still hearing far more 'this is horrible and has got to stop'. Granted, I couldn't stomach Trump, so I watched more of the Democrats than the Republicans, but I'm hearing far more push to fix acknowledge problems underlying the violence than a desire to escalate.
That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.