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Both sides have been egging on nutters. Then heavily influenced by them. 

Doesn't matter who said what in the past (my opinion on who's been egging on who is the complete opposite of Leggy). For the good of the country they should all stop with the violent rhetoric and bashing each other and just talk about policy. 

American are all about drama though. And they love it. That's were reality TV got its beginning. This is all just next level stuff.

Not to this extent they don't, if they don't simmer down this could escalate and either their democracy collapses or they go to civil war, either way it's dreadful for us and the rest of the free world.

Yes fair comments. Sometimes it really feels like we are rapidly reaching tipping point with-in the global space. Not just with our politics either.

Yeh. 

Then you realise that our parents or maybe mine at least, grew up with the Cuban missile crisis, the assassination of the Kennedys, Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, and Kent State. Before that there was the Civil War in the US, and then the abandonment of black people in the South to the KKK and the spread of the lost cause myth through the Reconstruction era. There was a threat of rogue nuclear weapons with any instability in the Eastern bloc. 

In short, comes around goes around and we’re cockroaches. With any luck. 

Certainly I’ve tried to vote towards minimising climate change most of my life, but it’s almost been an exercise in futility. 

And the moment of Tim B-L and an optimistic tech future seem very much on the retreat as well. 

So yeh! If you’ve got a nice farm you can manage by yourself with one or two others, close but not too close to the coast and with a few fruit trees and vege patches hardy enough to withstand a few degrees change and storms, maybe declare your own state? It’s silly, but also the New Zealand dream imo. And could be a lot worse…

And yes I’m aware of the irony of criticising survivalist preppers in the US and then recommending this! But I think this is more isolationist than the militarist prepper fantasy.