June, Thursday 11th., 2020Civil War 2.0 Weather Report: The Tsunami Begins, But You Knew That...

June, Thursday 11th., 2020

''Balkans or Caesar Might Be The Best Case Scenario''

''Being Balkanized remains a possibility, and probably guarantees border wars for decades unless we put up a big, beautiful wall around California.''
"Is having a Caesar that bad?  Absolutely.  But a strongman will try to have to have some sort of legitimacy and will at least (in theory) have some desire to keep a relatively strong country together to turn over to his children.  The old forms of government will be nodded to.  The Senate may not have power, but there will be Senators pretending to have power.
Not good, especially since that pesky Constitution will be entirely ignored, rather than mostly ignored like it is today.  But Caesar’s United States probably more peaceful than a Balkanized America."

''But there is one possibility that scares me more than either of those:  Soviet America. 
The riots that started nine days ago (yes, it’s only been that long) appear to be the Left making the first push into creating violence to go along with our economic issues and the lingering Coronavirus. ''

"I brought up the Russian Revolution earlier, because that more than anything is what this latest round of violence feels like:  violence, in part funded and provoked by a foreign enemy with the aim of destabilizing America and making people welcome those who promise what they never can really provide.?

Civil War 2.0 Weather Report: The Tsunami Begins, But You Knew That...

... civilization isn’t holding together - and I’m not just talking about the one-two punch of totalitarian donotleaveyourhouseism followed without pause by riotandlootallyouwantism...

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  by Tyler Durden

  Wed, 06/10/2020 - 19:55
  Authored by John Wilder via WilderWealthyWise.com,
  

  “If we can stop him, we shall prevent the collapse of Western Civilization.  No pressure.”
  – Sherlock Holmes:  A Game of Shadows
  

  In the first issue of the Civil War Weather Report, I put together ten steps to a new civil war.  I did not expect that on the one year anniversary of that first report we’d move from step 6 nearly to step 9.  Step 9. is, of course, two minutes to midnight.
  
• Things are going well.
  
• People begin to create groups.
  
• People begin to look for preferential treatment.
  
• Opposing ideology to the prevailing civic ideology is introduced and spread.
  
• Those who have an opposing ideology are considered evil.
  
• People actively avoid being near those of opposing ideology.  Might move from communities or states just because of ideology.
  
• Common violence. Organized violence is occurring monthly.
  
• Opposing sides develop governing/war structures.  Just in case.
  
• Common violence that is generally deemed by governmental authorities as justified based on ideology.
  
• Open War.
  

We are very, very close.  I debated internally more than a bit whether we were at an 8. or a 9. this month.  I finally decided to stay at an 8., despite multiple jurisdictions doing everything but arming the rioting faction of the protest movement with automatic firearms and bullhorns that make them all sound like Gilbert Gottfried.  It is clear we are at least an 8., and you will see in the graphs section that our Wilder Violence Index has reached new highs.
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