SHTF

[CharlesHarris]

Today's political tensions in the US look a lot like the Kansas-Missouri border struggles. Once politics give way to vigilante justice it's game on. Oligarchy is the natural state of government through the ages and tyranny is it’s principle tool. (Both Cicero and Aristotle describe the cycle of Anarchy, Democracy, Monarchy, Oligarchy quite clearly). The real power behind the throne is controlled by the Titans of Industry, currently the tech sector (in years past it was manufacturing and energy production).

They shape and fund the current insurrection for their own ends, often through manipulation of government bureaucrats and elected officials. Not a new phenomenon at all. There are lessons to be learned from the Thatcher era-pseudo war in the Northern Six Counties of Ireland, the best recent analogy I know of, which fits better than the US Civil War, the Balkan Collapse, Rwanda, Malaysia, Angola, Oman, Rhodesia, the Boer Wars (1899-1902 and circa 1965-present), Algeria, or Vietnam (1945-1973). There are important threads that run through each of those revolts. I don’t expect America to experience a "Fort Sumpter moment," but we can fully expect escalating unrest regardless of how the fall election turns out. A lot of misery will pass before the elites reach their Westphalia moment.