It sounds like you're anticipating an asymmetric war with home-grown
terrorists and youth death squads that are organizing in church basements
as
we speak.

Interesting since that is exactly the situation you have in the middle
east, yet you think somehow it couldn't happen here.

It's bizarre that you think your fellow Americans are as vulnerable to
superstitious nonsense and value life as little as the members of Al Queda,
and would form death squads to cleanse the country for the True Believers.

If you believe that, you must not think very much of your countrymen. You
certainly wouldn't trust them to own guns. Are you sure you're in the right
country here, Pete?



The short take is that I think you guys have lost a few of your marbles.

And I think you are blinding yourself to possibilities you don't want to
consider.

I'm working on more likely scenarios, like an invasion from Alpha Centauri.


I'll tell you what it is, Ed. See, Pete's a conservative, and from 2001
until last year he's gotten used to having a government that did pretty
much what he wanted it to. He got used to seeing conservatives win every
battle in Washington and so did all the other conservatives. But now
they have been losing every battle and the government is doing the
opposite of what he wants it to do. He's gone from being in the majority
to being a minority and it doesn't feel right. It seems like his country
isn't his anymore and that somehow he's being mistreated. All the
conservatives like him feel like their wants should be catered to and
instead they are a minority that is getting nothing the way they want
it. This has upset them very much. So much they are talking about
secession, rebellion, lynching, killing, and other such things.
Unfortunately, they seem to be headed for minority status for a long
time to come. They will get used to it, their anger will subside, and in
time they will shut up. But it's going to take a while for them to
adjust to the new normal. It's like losing your wealth. At first it's a
terrible shock but in time you learn to adjust. You don't like it but
you adjust. Pete is just learning that his party doesn't get to run the
country anymore and his opponents do. He's not happy like all
conservatives so they are being pricks about it. But isn't that what you
would expect from them?

Hawke