Burner Prime wrote: ↑Fri Jun 18, 2021 3:43 pm
John wrote: ↑Thu Jun 17, 2021 9:56 pm
** 17-Jun-2021 World View: Civic unity regeneracy
Trevor wrote: ↑Thu Jun 17, 2021 8:17 pm
> Considering what's going on right now, how would we ever be able
> to stand up against a Chinese attack? Our military's focusing more
> on being woke than being ready for a possible conflict. I watch
> Biden's conferences, and he's barely able to keep it together even
> through softball interviews. I'd be amazed if he lives through his
> first term.
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I've said this many times, but apparently few people believe me, even
in this forum.
The way it will end is with a "regeneracy event," an event that
threatens the existence of America and its way of life. This event
will cause all the woke crap to be abandoned, as the country unites to
respond to the threat.
In 1941, it was the Pearl Harbor attack and the Bataan Death March.
Today, it might be a missile attack on an American city, or it might
be a major military disaster overseas. Today, it's most likely going
to be whatever event triggers war with China.
This is not going to happen this time. That's because the country back then was mostly ethnically homogeneous. Evidence is how the country reacted to Covid. Despite the seriousness, it quickly devolved into bickering and jockeying for power, while the deaths of hundreds of thousands were used as props to score political points and change the balance of power between branches and over the population. Ethno-economic issues played heavily into every aspect (who had access to the vaccine, the name of the variants, the name of the origin, who was excluded from travel).
The "existence of America and its way of life.." is an anachronism of a bygone era; you are living in the past. That America no longer exists and consequently will not be defended but for a few die-hards who missed the writing on the wall. Instead most people will loot what they can from the burning buildings just as they do during riots. "The way of life" from the perspective of politicians and selfish Americans is just what I described, not what you think it is, i.e. apple pies and baseball and 1957 Chevrolets in Suburbia. In reality it's all about the illusion of "giving back", "making a difference(TM)" (The sleight of hand), while looting everything in sight by any means necessary. Most people understand, even the low-IQ instinctively, that America is dying and now is the time to pick the corpse clean before only the dry bones are left.
When WWIII happens the deaths of millions will be used as political props just as it was for Covid. One side will accuse the other of incompetence and the need to remove them from power, unite us all (LOL), and win the war against Covid, er I mean the Evil Chinese menace.
The reason this will happen is that when we fight China, they will not make extensive attacks on the US mainland and as such it won't be seen as a serious "existential threat" by idiotic politicians and lazy, entitled, woke Americans. Their attacks will concentrate on Taiwan and Japan and anyone in the Indo Pacific who tries to stand in their way. Guam is toast and will be nuked into glass, and I guess finally the US realized that (they read my posts), and recently decided to move critical assets away from there.
Just as the Civil War, WWI, WWII were used as excuses to tax the population to pay for the war effort, new means of taking wealth away from the people and concentrate it into the hands of the government elites will be implemented. It's already happening with unconstitutional wealth tax proposals. Similarly these new proposals are linked with the 'war on Covid" (see how this works?) and how the rich benefited and even has the Orwellian name "Patriot Tax".
Circling back (hat tip to Psaki) to the importance of ethnic homogeneity, Japan is united and prosperous and handled Covid much better than most nations because of it. The safe, clean, clockwork society is also why thousands of Western Weebs are obsessed with them. In simple terms the Japanese love their fellow Japanese and will cooperate across society when necessary, existential threat or not. China also has this property. America does not and that will be the source of our undoing. We hate each other and work constantly to wrest power from the "other" which often is based on ethnic or other identities. WWIII will be seen as a perfect opportunity for one group to consolidate power over another.
If China did some horrific attack against the US like the Bataan Death March, we would do the OPPOSITE of what we did during WWII, such as interning Japanese, vilifying them, and ultimately nuking them. No, these days we would bend over backwards to protect all ethnic Asians across the west, we would not vilify any Chinese even the mainland perpetrators, and Chinese agents would be free to carry out their operations as no internment of Chinese would be acceptable.
Like you say John, history doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes. Just as Rome ended its empire disunited and squabbling, so will the US.