Life Inside the Bubble
Here is a slice of life inside the bubble, Pajamas Media Division:
At some point, protests against mortgage bailouts turn into bricks tossed through the windows of bailed out homes, or baseball bats taken to car dealerships, or Molotov cocktails thrown at bank branches and government offices. When Americans lose hope, instead of taking handouts, they bite those whose hands are out, especially if those hands are holding guns. Worse is that Americans seem less inclined than ever to channel their rising anger into a current political alternative. (emphasis added)
Now is there any reason to believe this? Chrysler was bailed out thirty years ago, and Harley-Davidson benefited from protectionism only a few years later. I don’t remember a lot of smashed windows over that.
I would like to say something substantive about biting the hands of those taking handouts while those hands are holding guns, but it is so incoherent that I don’t know what to say.
I hear all this talk about a “Second Civil War” breaking out if things get really bad, but I think that most of this talk is merely alcohol fueled BSing and or macho posturing.
Gun sales are up, granted, but when strict gun control comes, only a few scattered hillbillies will actually do anything, and once the moon-shine runs out that will be the end of it.
Like it or not, we are now a socialist society. The so-called “Tea Parties” are nothing but a stupid, pathetic joke, and the numbers attending seem to be highly inflated.
Mr. Stooksbury, I suspect that you and I share the same contempuous opinion of the so-called “pajamas media”.
(I won’t dignify them by putting the term in caps).
Funniest part to me is that most of the people I know who are in a bind with their mortgage are life long republican voters who strangely don’t hear the right calling them deadbeats. But they have no problem blaming a man who took office two months ago for a recession that’s 16 months long.
I hate to say it but I think the American public lacks the grit to rebel. The core suburban white element is far from willing to rough it, being dependent on complex societal structures for food, fuel, information, etc. Rural folk are different, but too few to tip the balance.
Now that may change if there is prolonged deprivation. Force middle class people to rely on their wits and personal energy to survive and the equation changes. As an already balkanized society, internal divisions could boil over.
The critical question is, if a crunch came what would the police and the military do? Of course we are talking about dark matters here. My guess is that if a redistributionist government with an openly anti-white agenda were to take us into a real depression, there would be violence. The unspoken motto of all of us pale folk is “Don’t get into trouble.” Once we are in trouble that goes out the window. But for right now, people will continue to watch their TV’s and worry.
You’re right. We’re nowhere near any kind of bloodshed. We won’t be, unless it all really falls apart and people’s kids start going hungry. once that happens, all bets are off. We tend to defer to any kind of authority, legitimate or not.
So the only scenario I see any thing that could even be close to a civil war occurring under is one where the federal government actually collapses. That’s unlikely unless the bond market and the currency both totally collapse.
On the other hand, America has a long history of violent unrest directed at one another. I see both shooting feuds and urban riots in our future. Of course, our current deification of Diversity makes any urban unrest that much more violent and intractable. The lessons of Iraq are there for us to learn, if we will.