John Wilder, at his Wilder Wealthy & Wise blog, has a new "Civil War 2.0 Weather Report: Two Minutes To Midnight." The key point, I think, is his discussion of how quickly certain states took sides with Texas when it defied the federal government on taking down razor wire at Eagle Pass. Wilder writes:
In the aftermath of the Virgina Second Amendment rally a few years ago I had a realization about path to Civil War 2.0: organization will be very, very fast. I think I even wrote those words in the Civil War 2.0 Weather Report, but I’m too lazy to look it up. Regardless, I’m going with a full “I told you so” about this one.
First: Texas wasn’t ordered by the Supreme Court to do anything. The Supreme Court’s decision was removing an injunction against the more or less worthless Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) being able to remove razor wire that Texas put up, so the ruling doesn’t require Texas to do anything.
Second: If ICE is as bad at customs as they are at immigration, I’d expect that you could export nuclear bombs to Bulgaria.
Aside from that, the amazing thing was about how quickly a coalition of the Several States backed Texas. I was doing a podcast with The Mrs. and Mark and even as we were talking, more and more governors were saying that they stood with Texas in real time – state after state.
This was a big deal.
And it happened very, very quickly. This is the trigger to number 9 on the Civil War 2.0 countdown list, and it happened in less than 24 hours. ...
Read the whole thing.
Scary times.
ReplyDeleteLooking at the examples in Turchin's book, the elites generally only give up power as the consequence of war or plague that kill large portions of the population (including large numbers of elites).
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