More and more on the left and the right (but particularly the later, specifically Libertarians) one hears the idea that the economic end is nigh – soon it’ll be time to break out the guns, ammo, and survival skills. It has gone from mildly paranoid to explicitly wishful.
Here’s my responses for this wistful desire:
- Yes, the country is being run horribly.
- No, your solutions are not the answer.
- I have not met anyone proposing to lead the “new revolution” that I would want to lead the “new revolution”.
- I care too much about people to wish this upon anyone, most specifically my family and friends.
Basically, what we have sucks, but the half-assed plans of a bunch of crazy Libertarians doesn’t sound much better. Ultimately I feel the same way about wanna-be revolutionaries as the fundamentalist Bible thumpers:
“I’ve never met anyone who was sure they were going to HeavenTM, that I would actually want to be in HeavenTM with.”
– Me
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