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How can there be so many F*cking stupid people.

I think far too few people realize the extent of the stupidity. As a nation, we put material goods and the illusion of ownership over discipline and saving to own what's ours. As a nation, we wanted to have things and we borrowed money, and became slaves to a system. A man in debt doesn't have the disposition to ponder warfare. He's worried about keeping a job and making payments. Somewhere along the way, the people of this nation lost their way and became a slave to either a bank, or the government itself, and a slave can't be a soldier... not an effective one.

Had the working/producing people owned what they had, and had a year's worth of cash set aside for hard times, they could have stopped working collectively and rendered an ultimatum to the government. Imagine what this would have done to TARP had a mere 25% of the working population done this for 60 days at the peak of the financial crisis. But they couldn't, because they're in debt. Moreover this, it's their own fault. They made a willful and conscious decision. They traded material goods for comfort or to fill some unnecessary want or desire over real power and liberty.

This is no place to be talking of warfare. I've said this before. If any number of "Alphabet Agencies" subpoena FR for its server logs, they'll be knocking on doors within 72 hours or sooner.

But as for warfare within our borders, I'm not betting on it. Too few people actually have the stomach for it, or know how to start, wage, and end it. Too many people are just trying to stay in housing, or keep a job, or keep food on tables. It's going to have to get a lot worse before people are driven to even consider the sort of organized effort it takes to plan and wage a civil uprising. But having said that, it will digress and get worse. We have four years of patterns and character to observe which have been an indicator of where we're headed.

But to answer your question, I don't know how there can be so many F*cking stupid people. But there sure are a lot of them.