Inventory and availability discussion

[HoneyBadger]

I used to think Americans would revolt over stuff like this. I even claimed, probably on this very forum, that America wouldn't control the outbreak well specifically because we'd never agree to any sort of lockdown or mandates. Boy, was I wrong. I no longer think any significant group of Americans will revolt even if all that happens.

After all, the lefties would just loot Target stores and smash the windows at Starbucks while the righties would just condemn any of their own who stand up, chastising them "but we're better than that" and claim "we must work within the system".

We've already seen that bringing your displeasure directly to the people who created this mess is icky, "un-American" domestic terrorism.

Revolt will never happen. There's no fight in us. We'll keep on walking to our shitty totalitarian future like every other country that's been taken over by commies.

My calculus on this idea has changed a lot over the last 10 years.... There are certain things that I would proudly stand and defend at all costs, but that list of things is a lot shorter and with specific caveats, now that I've got kids and the potential of a very bright and comfortable future. More succinctly, you could say that my line in the sand has moved as I've gotten older. Once my kids are old enough to stand up for themselves and I have fewer liabilities, then I suppose that line would move again - likely back toward where it used to be.

The reality is that we might be very close to some extraordinarily difficult times, but when you take a look around.... most of us here are still more comfortable and better off than 95% of the human population. I think we've all but lost the idea of American Exceptionalism, so it'll take a lot of awful experiences to push most people across the line that demands action.


This goes back to the old axiom that I've always considered was about the fall of Rome.... but nowadays, we all look like Romans.