01-12-2021, 06:29 AM
(01-12-2021, 02:53 AM)mamabug Wrote: Well *that* was a pleasant read right before going to bed.
I'm still hopeful the crisis breaks in a different way, but this perfectly outlined one of the worst case scenarios I foresee as still being possible.
A mostly political divide, instead of an ethnic one, though, is much trickier to pull off as it breaks across families as well as regions that are controlled by the opposition. Pretty sure even my super liberal aunt who posts 30 pro-democratic posts per day on Facebook would object to her slightly crazy evangelical Christian sister and her absurdly big family from disappearing in the night and fog.
As I posted when Xenakis originally put the above on his site, there are other resolutions. A crisis normally ends in a vast crash of conservative values. Elitism, racism, anti science, and fantasy realities are all vulnerable given the current mood of the country. The capital insurrection was based on a lie, that there was systematic voter fraud. That it was a lie will become clear. That will make it impossible for anyone contesting for control of the Republican Party to be a threat to the Democrats as a big tent party until Trumpism is defeated.
The above is an Industrial Age tribal thinking vision of an Information Age WEIRD problem.
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.
