The Powder Keg

People comfort themselves with the idea that "it can't happen here" - until it does.

America is on a path to a place it has been only once before in its history.

Of course, we have major disruptions before. The American people have had economic depressions, social unrest, political upheaval, and even government incompetence, but the American people have only met once at the intersection of all four – and that intersection resulted in a civil war.

Pretty much every major conflict was limited to three out of those four – only the war between citizens, the American Civil War, had all four conditions.

In pretty much all the prior situations, government seemed at least minimally rational and in control, if not completely competent. It retained enough trust and confidence from enough people that it was a stabilizing force during some tough times (the farm protests during the Great Depression, the anti-war riots, and the criminal activities during the turbulent 60’s).

The biggest difference this time is that the government is not seen as competent or in control. Poll after poll reveals that more people every day see this government and those in charge of it as the cause of America’s issues.

Add to that a despicable, toxic media so deep in the tank for this president and his party that they will literally lie about everything, connect the unconnectable to support the lies and make things up when they can’t lie about things that happened, and that’s a spark that could set the whole thing off.

After an entire weekend of the leftist media accusing Tucker Carlson of inciting a mass shooting and making completely unsupportable claims, tonight he delivered the most measured, and yet vicious, response to the attempted character assassination. It was vicious because it was completely rooted in facts and truth and logically constructed – not that the media will understand that.

I appreciate that he can do that – but not everybody has the restraint of Carlson. I, for one, have just about had enough of the mendacious behaviors.

What am I going to do about it?

Not really clear just yet, it is a work in progress.

But I have to tell you, I’m not the only one who is spitting nails.

What I do know is that we are sitting on top of a much larger powder keg than we might think.

And the Democrats and their fanbois in the media are playing with matches.

Nobody thinks something on the magnitude of a civil war can happen - until it does.