Anyone else think things are unusually calm out there? Covid is getting worse and the government is getting more dictatorial with lockdowns and businesses keep failing. Haven’t been following the election TBH but there’s tons of sketchy shit and Trump is now starting with lawsuits. Everyone already seems unhappy with Biden, even liberals seem very unexcited (if he actually does wins the election, seems like there may be fraud but I’m out of the loop on that). Getting bad feelings from lots of different odd events
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Nothing ever happens.
Things have been happening. What people don't seem to remember is that the time between incidents tend to be months apart from each other. Bullets were flying for over a year before the declaration of independence. And other shit had been going on for nearly a decade before Lexington Green.
There were skirmishes along the Missouri/Kansas border for years before the guns fired on Ft. Sumter.
It's just these events are bridged by a couple of a sentences or maybe a paragraph in our history books.
The powder keg is primed. I don't know what will set it off, but something will. It might be a SCOTUS ruling in the next few weeks. It maybe the actions of a Biden administration six months from now.
A friend of mine was running for state rep in 2018. I was at a lunch with policy wonks after spending the morning listening to a bunch of numbers geeks presenting data. It was a very quite lunch as everyone sitting there knew what the data was saying: we were in for a decade of unrest no matter what in the 2020's. It was time to start preparing the state and we spent most of last year working on policy outlines and draft legislation. Ironically the first thing on the agenda was to build up state level medical supplies and trying to get $35M in funding to buy PPE and a couple million doses of some common generic drugs so the state wouldn't have to rely on FEMA. A draft bill was circulating around when COVID hit, the session ended prematurely, and nothing happened especially since the state budget was about to be blown to hell and back.
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