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Although I want badly to agree, I can't help but think that it's a slippery slope. We can treat this election like a special case because we think it is one, bu
by tbird24 10y ago
Although I want badly to agree, I can't help but think that it's a slippery slope. We can treat this election like a special case because we think it is one, but ~>40% of the US population will vote for Trump in November. We can't condemn 40% of the population, can we?
What's the counter argument to this?
- douche 10y agoThe country is really bifurcating. It's a very dangerous bifurcation, because it is not a regional difference; it is essentially an urban/rural difference. Most dangerously, there is the situation where the urban cohort represents power and money, while the rural cohort overwhelmingly supplies their sons and daughters to populate the armed services that protect the money. As a thought experiment, I've thought what a modern-day civil war would look like. Assuming it wasn't crushed instantly by the military, I think it would look like the vast areas of fly-over-country besieging the urban areas, with huge chunks of the current command structure and rank and file joining the rebels.
- cookiecaper 10y agoYes. Military people are usually very conservative. It would be hard to get them to engage on the "liberal" side of such a conflict. No doubt there would be defections of entire bases and installments.