Driven

Driving is pretty great. People like doing it, generally. It offers a lot of freedom. It’s a weirdo urban-leftist myth that people hate driving. What they actually hate is commuting, which is a different sort of thing altogether.

Method To It

Indeed. I grew up in North Florida, among a whole passel of North Florida meth-heads. And I can tell a North Florida meth-head on sight in about 0.00001 seconds. Other people marvel at this skill. And I’m always right.

In the liberal mind, I’m discriminating. I’m being unfair. An obvious nasty meth habit doesn’t mean they’re not a good person, right? RIGHT? Tell me that as they’re stealing all your shit and perhaps stabbing you. Then you’ll be glad I did the discrimination.

Liberals are just wrong about all this stuff. Self-harmingly so.

Incivil

A civil war in the current United States would not look at all like what people imagine, or the Civil War from 1861-1865.

It’d manifest more like the Rwandan Genocide combined with the political violence of the late 1960s and 1970s. Mostly, it’d be right-wingers killing Democrats, liberals and leftists with some retaliatory attacks going the other way “justifying” the attempted purge.

It might turn into a wider war, but that’d require geographical sorting that I find unlikely. Even most red cities are ~35%+ blue for instance.

So it’d be nasty. And long-running. And you would not like it. The economy would crash and food shipments would be disrupted. Some areas would starve in the worst cases.

But it’s certainly possible. I give the above scenario a 15% chance in the next decade, which is way way too much.

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