Hope for the Best, Prepare for the Worst Podcast 317

What is your plan for 2021? Are you hoping for the best and preparing for the worst?

How is your hope for the future? What is your plan for the future?

Without hope we won’t do anything. You have to have hope for a better future. Admittedly, the future is tenuous at best. But it always has been.

For at least 100 years people have been worried about the United States collapsing. As long as we, the American People, don’t turn on each other, America will live forever.

My worry is that we are turning on each other. And people are talking as if the next civil war is inedible. They are probably right, but I’d like to push that another 150 to 200 years before it happens.

We have to hope for the best, have a plan for that, and prepare for the worst and have a plan for that.

The best is what we have had in the last couple of years to a decade. Life has been good for Americans and the world. It has been nice.

But an old saying made famous by G. Michael Hopf in his book “Those Who Remain” says

“Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.”

It’s a pretty wicked cycle. Somehow in our modern world, we have made some men strong and others weak. Now it seems like the weak men are leading the country creating hard times. Some men during the last couple of decades have been tested and made hard by battles.

Many of us fought the war on terror and like most of the last “wars” America fought we seem to be losing. I sight the “war on poverty,” “the war on drugs” and the almost war on immigration. But the problem goes back to the Korean “War” that never was and has never ended.

Now some people think using the same “war” tactic in America to make policy the way they want it will work. Sure, why not?

Wars are bloody horrible things. We think it’s something romantic and heroic. We, the American Colonies thought that when the Revolutionary war began. Then, we the American People thought that during the first couple battles of the Civil War. Now I see that again in people throughout our community.

The horror of war is not something that can be explained, only can be lived to understand. It’s a feeling of dread, despair, hopelessness with the foul taste of dirt, and a smell of death that you can’t escape.

If or when another civil war comes to America it is likely going to be a genocide. Or at least that is what history will call it in the end. COVID death numbers will be a joke that happens almost daily. We will be lucky if half the American population survives.

There will be people like me on both sides. Each extremely good at waging a genocidal war (it’s what I was taught to fight by the Marine Corps). There are only two ways to win a war; one side gives up, or there is no one left to fight. We will fight with honor at first. Only going after those that fight us.

Then the gloves will come off. One side will go after the other side’s family. And that will be the end of honor on any defined battlefield. A warrior’s family is much easier to kill than a warrior.

Families will be used as leverage against the other side. Once one warrior or small group of warriors lose their families, they will have nothing left to live for and nothing worth fighting honorably for. They will start a genocide against the other side. The other side will react in kind.

Survivalists have been studying the problems America and the world have with “just-in-time-inventory,” food is grown thousands of miles from the people that eat it, and energy and goods that a produced have a world away.

It wouldn’t take much to disrupt the goods and services we take for granted everywhere in the world.

When you hear someone talk about the next revolutionary war, tell them how bad it could and probably will be. Let them read this post. Something, anything to make them think about it and not does it.

It only took 3% of the population to fight the first revolutionary war. It wouldn’t take much to spark the next one.

Don’t be that spark, but be ready for it.

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Stay Safe,

Ben

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