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[pecunium]

In other places there has been discussion of civil war, of what happens if the center cannot hold.

I have some ideas on this (I'm against it. I've made several speeches against it at Making Light One (buried in a long thread, and lots of the pieces worth reading; in this context for more of my thinking on the subject. It's in the interplay between myself and Lance) and Two which is a specific comment on lots of things, some of which are going on; still).

So, in the event that peaceful means can't correct the course of state, and some more drastic means is employed... how do you see the situation resolving itself?

What happens should the body politic reache the breaking point and chooses to excercise its right to "alter or abolish," the Nation as it is presently configured?

I'll give my ideas later, when the rest of you have chimed in.

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[sinboy.livejournal.com]

We're simply too well fed to revolt. Revolution is tied intrinsically to class revolt, not moral outrage. If things break down the way you rpedict, it's a possibility.

Why would things break down? Because the US has leveraged its self into a huge debt financing a war with no economic return *ever*. Much like Viet Nam. Even if we "win", we don't really win anything. Terrorism is like communism that way. We're not able to 'defeat; it. It has to defeat its self. In the meanshile, we spend spend spend. And we incite and involve ourselves in costly conflicst that don't do any damage to the real nature of the enemy.

I'm still fairly pessimistc. A large enough amout of Americans not only supported Bush, but accepted the force feeding of the swift boat nonsese, and made decisions based on cowboy Bush versus francophille Kerry.

The long term solution to this crisis is an educated, capable, thoughtful populace. I don't know of any nation that's achived that.