I have always wondered how you convince people to agree to fight to the death in a war that they will have little or nothing to gain from doing so. An example for me is the Civil War. Most in the south didn’t have slaves and most in the north could not have cared less, but there they went, and by the time it was over, somewhere between 600,000 and 750,000 people were dead, and most of them had nothing to gain from any of it. I know…. Here is where you insert your favorite talking point, One like we fight them over there so we don’t have to fight them over here…. or I disagree with what you’re saying but I will defend to the death your right to say it. That first one is just total nonsense, and the other is a grand idea, but nobody believes it anymore, if they ever did, and that’s the point here. The masses are led by talking points and propaganda, and it is breathtaking how easily the masses, through manipulation will just get up and trot to their graves.

So what’s my point? I am constantly looking around and asking silly questions to myself. Questions like, Why are our leaders going out of their way to keep us divided? Why are the extremes on both sides so angry. My next question is about who benefits most from all this? I promise you that the average citizen has nothing to gain and everything to lose. Right now, in Minnesota, things are coming to a head that have been building for decades. We watch regimes fall in far away places, that seemed impossible to topple at one time, and can’t fathom how something like that could ever happen here. Not here. Never here. There has been a preamble to a civil war that has gone unaddressed for far too long, and my biggest fear right now is that we passed the tipping point long ago. Minds too easily swayed by raging hormones become useful to those with bad intentions, and I’ll let you connect the dots, but our reckoning is here. It’s here right now, and as always, the average citizen will bear the weight of decisions made by those who will never pay a price.

I’m watching Minnesota, Minneapolis, it’s governor, mayor, and all the public officials, and I’m wondering if this might become the spark….

I thought it would be Texas.

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