- this country tends to pendulum back and forth between left/right rule, and that neither tend to stay in power long-term (barring successful J6 repeats) because most of the country doesn't like the full breadth of their policy positions
- while the loudest political nutjobs always make the new…
- this country tends to pendulum back and forth between left/right rule, and that neither tend to stay in power long-term (barring successful J6 repeats) because most of the country doesn't like the full breadth of their policy positions
- while the loudest political nutjobs always make the news, there are 4-5 normies for every political nutjob, and the collective power of normies wins over extremists just about every time
- somebody overseas will eventually do something dumb and attack us, which will give us a national cause for unity
- even Trumpers are too decadent to *really* cut themselves off from that sweet- sweet state capital money (read: big city liberal money) that gets redistributed to the rurals on a state-by-state basis
- if all else fails, the liberal country that emerges from this mess will out-compete the conservative country that emerges in terms of economic productivity and globalized trade, which means you can buy a lot of imports to provide logistics against future domestic insurgencies indefinitely, whereas the insurgency will likely need to survive off of the land--something that can be targeted domestically with things as simple as targeting soil biomes via viruses that attack the soil's bacteria and fungal networks. Then they don't eat. Fire also comes in handy during long-term siege operations--which William T Sherman can tell you all about, especially if you target the local fire-fighting infrastructure first to prevent them from extinguishing the damage. Small towns are more vulnerable to siege works than large cities. Fewer ways in/out via vehicle and their logistical supplies are more vulnerable.
I live in a sort of small town outlying suburb of a University town in Michigan. You probably have heard of it, it’s a football team with an institution of learning and research attached. My sub is moderate conservative upper middle class professional and went for Biden. and I am literally about 500 yards from the surrounding areas which are deep red, Trump flags, people with inflatable Trump lawn figures, and who drive around in pickup trucks decorated with belligerent MAGA signs and flying Trump and Gadsden flags. Not only that— punisher symbols, blue stripe fascist American flag images, and lots of gun imagery—such as the outline of Michigan (which resembles a mitten) holding a firearm.
These people spent a lot of time inT rump parades last election— trucks and boats and motorcycles, driving and sailing around like “wide awake” marchers in the 19th century, or Brownshirt rallies in Deutschland in the 20th.
They are armed. I expect to see them more and more even cruising in my neighborhood, showing their strength in shows of intimidation. If they turn from thus far performative assholery to actually brandishing and then using their weaponry I don’t see where it stops, or how we can turn it around. Because the other side wants the violence, and we just want to be left alone to enjoy our safe, upper decile, professional class nice life and our comfortable high incomes, high value big houses, and good schools and careers.
I tend to rest my hopes on the notions that:
- this country tends to pendulum back and forth between left/right rule, and that neither tend to stay in power long-term (barring successful J6 repeats) because most of the country doesn't like the full breadth of their policy positions
- while the loudest political nutjobs always make the news, there are 4-5 normies for every political nutjob, and the collective power of normies wins over extremists just about every time
- somebody overseas will eventually do something dumb and attack us, which will give us a national cause for unity
- even Trumpers are too decadent to *really* cut themselves off from that sweet- sweet state capital money (read: big city liberal money) that gets redistributed to the rurals on a state-by-state basis
- if all else fails, the liberal country that emerges from this mess will out-compete the conservative country that emerges in terms of economic productivity and globalized trade, which means you can buy a lot of imports to provide logistics against future domestic insurgencies indefinitely, whereas the insurgency will likely need to survive off of the land--something that can be targeted domestically with things as simple as targeting soil biomes via viruses that attack the soil's bacteria and fungal networks. Then they don't eat. Fire also comes in handy during long-term siege operations--which William T Sherman can tell you all about, especially if you target the local fire-fighting infrastructure first to prevent them from extinguishing the damage. Small towns are more vulnerable to siege works than large cities. Fewer ways in/out via vehicle and their logistical supplies are more vulnerable.
I live in a sort of small town outlying suburb of a University town in Michigan. You probably have heard of it, it’s a football team with an institution of learning and research attached. My sub is moderate conservative upper middle class professional and went for Biden. and I am literally about 500 yards from the surrounding areas which are deep red, Trump flags, people with inflatable Trump lawn figures, and who drive around in pickup trucks decorated with belligerent MAGA signs and flying Trump and Gadsden flags. Not only that— punisher symbols, blue stripe fascist American flag images, and lots of gun imagery—such as the outline of Michigan (which resembles a mitten) holding a firearm.
These people spent a lot of time inT rump parades last election— trucks and boats and motorcycles, driving and sailing around like “wide awake” marchers in the 19th century, or Brownshirt rallies in Deutschland in the 20th.
They are armed. I expect to see them more and more even cruising in my neighborhood, showing their strength in shows of intimidation. If they turn from thus far performative assholery to actually brandishing and then using their weaponry I don’t see where it stops, or how we can turn it around. Because the other side wants the violence, and we just want to be left alone to enjoy our safe, upper decile, professional class nice life and our comfortable high incomes, high value big houses, and good schools and careers.