Tuesday, November 05, 2024

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So if he doesn't win, what do you think the reaction's going to be?" Corn asked one supporter at the rally. 
"Civil riot, civil war," the supporter replied. 
"Are you going to be part of that?" asked Corn. 
"Yeah, absolutely," the Trump supporter replied. "In what way?" Corn enquired. "I'm not talking anymore!" the Trump supporter said and then fled the scene. 
A different Trump supporter, who told Corn that he'd spent time in jail for illegally entering the United States Capitol building on January 6th, 2021, also predicted mass violence should Trump be denied yet again. 
"Will there be another January 6th?" Corn asked. 
"It probably would be worse," the man said. "It would probably be ten times worse."
These are the clowns who dream of starting a race war by blowing up a power distribution center (pro tip: a large part of the City of Houston was without power for up to three weeks after Hurricane Ike. Most of the state lost power for a week when Cruz fled to Cancun. No race war ensued.) The race war, of course, will purge society of everybody who isn’t them, creating a true paradise in America.

Almost 45 years ago I was drinking with my boss after work (I was in grad school, working at the bakery at Schlotzky’s), and he started telling me how the “survivalists” (later known as “preppers”) were right because Western civilization was on the verge of collapse and only the prepared would survive to re-establish order. It was the post-nuclear war scenario pushed by the Feds in the’50’s, to reassure us such a war was “survivable” and we must be ready to fight it. Only in the’80’s the scenario had dumped the Cold War trappings and embraced economic (inflation and interest rates were both in double digits) and social collapse (the’70’s were the violent end of the revolution of the’60’s. Chayefsky’s “Network,” not “Saturday Night Fever.”).

Same as it ever was. All that’s changed is patience for the apocalypse to bring itself is now impatience to help it along. James Watt thought he was leading a “Sagebrush Rebellion” as Reagan’s Secretary of the Interior.  Anybody remember him any better the “rebellions” Aamon Bundy thought he was leading?

“If you start a fire, you want it to burn.”  That’s a phrase Don Crossan invented for Jesus of Nazareth to try to convey Crossan’s sense of Jesus’ “real” revolutionary message. Love it or hate it it discard it, it underlines one thing: it’s darned hard to start that fire. 🔥 Especially using metaphorical wood.🪵 
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