11-21-2016, 01:20 PM
(11-18-2016, 01:12 PM)X_4AD_84 Wrote:(11-18-2016, 02:02 AM)Eric the Green Wrote:(11-17-2016, 10:00 PM)X_4AD_84 Wrote:(11-17-2016, 08:22 PM)pbrower2a Wrote:(11-14-2016, 12:03 PM)X_4AD_84 Wrote: Just like the 3T went on, and on, and on, it looks like the 4T will as well.
Although there is now a leveling off, longevity went way up between the end of WW2 and just a few years ago. Boomers ain't riding off into the sunset yet. There are still many opportunities for Gray Champions or collections of people who fill that role. This is especially true for Disco Boomers.
The last Boomers turn 70 in 2030. It could take that long.
...As shown in the Confederacy, Germany, and Japan a 4T can go catastrophically badly with ruin of the economy, complete dissolution of the political order, and even loss of independence. And don't let me get into a discussion of Russia from the Bolshevik Revolution to the end of the Great Patriotic War or China in the Pacific War and the Communist Revolution. Sure, that can't happen to America, can it?
Wrong! Several countries have nuclear weapons and ICBMs. The only safe places in America in the event of a nuclear exchange will be places of neither military not economic significance. Political leadership in some other country will not allow their people to be turned into serfs or slaves. How many American losses can one expect in World War III?
During World War II, political polarization all but disappeared. If political polarization should disappear during the next four years in America it will be most likely because one side crushes any organized opposition.
So far I see no tendency toward conciliation by Donald Trump except to tell Democrats to support his authoritarian nightmare so that they can have some say on small things such as the routing of a highway. I doubt that Americans are going to take a dictatorial President and a stooge Congress lying down. We already have many protests and demonstrations. Just because one has a shaky mandate (winning the electoral vote but not the popular vote) does not mean that one has a mandate for tyranny.
If one dislikes Donald Trump and his policies, then we have a model to emulate -- the heroic struggle for African-American civil rights. All 50 states this time.
And we have the 2nd Amendment. Mark these words, the "cosmopolitan" factions of the Left will come to love the 2nd Amendment. Those of us who are stocking up on weapons and ammo would gladly share with any who are motivated, if something like a Quisling scenario were to arise. There would be no political litmus test, as some things "trump" polity.
The scenario I see, is if CA's sane laws are over-ruled by Trump, and CA resists, and Trump tries to enforce his and his congress' edicts, and CA refuses, and then Trump invades, then CA will need to resist as a state, organize an army, defend our borders from the invader. We'll need an entire army, and maybe get some WMDs from North Korea or somewhere, anywhere....
Eric we have our own WMD, no need to get from any where else.
Without getting into the nuts and bolts of it (e.g. never show one's entire hand) we have ICBM design and build, aircraft design and build, as well as warhead pit design and build. The other parts needed would be a no brainer given the existing talent plus corporate not to mention .edu and .gov facilities we already have.
How do I know this? Again, without getting into too many details, I previously mentioned I am a 3rd generation techie. All three generations have worked with various aspects of what I wrote up above, at some point in our careers. Further hint ... think of where we live and consider what is available within a 50 mile radius. Now add in So Cal.
Yes, I was thinking the same after I wrote my earlier post.