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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI fear "There Will Be Blood". Unless people are provided some relief from their feeling of
total helplessness---some reasonable hope that competent Americans will take charge of this ballooning crisis--- some are going to "snap".
In the opinion of many---most assuredly including me---Donald Trump wll soon be morally (and, perhaps legally) responsible for a quarter of a million dead mothers, fathers, husbands, wives, sons, daughters and grandparents. The scale of the grief that imposes on their surviving family members and friends has never been visited on this nation before---Trump.
Like a sealed vessel filled with water boiling on your kitchen stove, the pressure WILL be released. If a pressure cooker's relief valve becomes clogged, the pot EXPLODES.
If WE explode, we must be aware that the violence will instantly be used as justification for martial law and the use of force to silence all dissent. Of course, there is always the possibility that Americans will get so beaten down and so desperate for peace and some sense of normalcy that they will just "get in line" and do AS they are told and believe WHAT they are told. I can't picture myself in that line.
I sincerely hope that this post will in the future be cited as proof that Atticus was a needlessly worried Chicken Little in the time of Trump's plague.
leftieNanner
(14,966 posts)I will not be a sheep led to slaughter, nor a lemming off the cliff. (Side note - lemmings don't actually do that, apparently.)
The incompetence of this administration is beyond stunning. And every time that I think it can't get worse, it does.
I cannot imagine what young people with mortgages and families and no jobs will be doing (we are retired, and OK). Let's hope it doesn't come to the worst possible scenario.
I look forward to your wise posts on a regular basis.
Atticus
(15,124 posts)Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)This can be the kind of total clusterfrack that foments civil unrest, no doubt about it.
It is not at all out of line to consider the potential and I think you are being prescient here.
The fluid dynamics you describe has many analogies. In that case, there should be some national and local means to acknowledge and confront that prior to the explosions of violence and unrest. Early action to mitigate in various ways would be apropos.
That is, if we had a government right now that was sensitive to the collective needs of the gestalt and not just vested interests since everything is totally interdependent and we find that out the hard way when the facade of rugged individualism cracks and decays in times like these.
No, you are not being chicken little. There will most likely be upset in some areas depending on circumstances. The poignant question is, how much and how long. The long-term effects are my concern. This is a time of great change and chaos often ensues when the conditions allow for it. It is like a force of nature, only its human this time.
procon
(15,805 posts)It's already affected a large part if the country, namely Republicans. Even some Democrats have fallen prey to the grinding sense of helplessness and a creeping darkness of hopelessness as we watch Trump chopping away at every govt function.
I know people, friends of long standing that have already reached that point. They have run out of fight and what remains is despair for the country they knew and fear that they will not survive long enough to see justice and a return to the norms that defined our moral character.