The Partisan Divide on Issues

[Mikebert]

(08-29-2020, 12:18 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote: You better think harder than you normally do  because you're response may determine whether you live or die because it's pretty clear that it's my group who are going to be the decision makers because you've already determined that we are the strongest group in the United States of America today. I see a political party that's now mainly Progressive that seems to be of on the verge of imploding and I see the other party seems to have transitioned enough to take its place and stabilize most of the country.

I think you do not see clearly. But that is not what I want to ask. First, imagine this situation:

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You hold title to $450K ($900K if you are married) of income-generating property. You have good reason to believe that a radical faction has taken control of the opposing political party that if allowed to come to power will pass laws that will invalidate that legal title, stripping you of that property (with no compensation) and the income you derive from it. You are not alone. There are 16 million others in the same situation as you, some have more to lose some have less but the average is $450K per individual (collectively over $7 TRILLION).

The issue may be well be decided in the next election and tensions are understanding very high, political polarization is off the charts. Your side loses. Influential people you respect (who have lots more to lose than you) are calling for armed resistance. Would you join them? (I would). Where my wife and I live $900K is enough for for 6 rental units, that would allow us to collect rent on five apartments and live in the sixth rent-free, freeing up y salary for buying the good things in life.

If you were forced to give up your property you would be reduced to a lower class existence.
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This is the situation faced by slave owners in 1860. The scenario above is designed to show why the South seceded over the slavery issue. The Southern affluent and upper classes feared they faced real losses from the results from the election. Their fears were valid; five years later emancipation stripped them of those assets.

In the excerpt above, and in other things you have written, you imply that violence will arise out of the political polarization of our times. So I ask, what do you fear losing that is worth risking your life and everything you hold dear in such an endeavor?