7666 on Nostr: My prevailing theory is that nothing unites a country or bloc faster than an external ...
My prevailing theory is that nothing unites a country or bloc faster than an external threat, a la 1984.
See how fast the EU has galvanized support for themselves with the loss of the US as a predictable strategic partner. See how nothing gets done here because there are only internal struggles against each other with no realistic external threat (immigration and the poor are just the default peacetime boogeymen). See how fast approval ratings jumped for Bush after the towers fell, and how fast we went to glass the Middle East.
Everyone stopped hating each other and picked a reasonable outside scapegoat! You could go to a shooting range and get an Osama target for Christ's sakes. There were a few downsides, e.g. Muslim Americans got dragged into the shit, and the US decided that it was a good time to also add the Patriot Act in force, but that looks like peanuts compared to the rape and pillage of the organs of the US government by wealthy businessmen, and the nonsense coming out of DC we have to put up with now.
Maybe we need a war. Let the generals push Trump and Elon aside and get the war machine turning. Give the smoothbrains something easy to rally against. Let's just hope we pick a good country to flatten.
See how fast the EU has galvanized support for themselves with the loss of the US as a predictable strategic partner. See how nothing gets done here because there are only internal struggles against each other with no realistic external threat (immigration and the poor are just the default peacetime boogeymen). See how fast approval ratings jumped for Bush after the towers fell, and how fast we went to glass the Middle East.
Everyone stopped hating each other and picked a reasonable outside scapegoat! You could go to a shooting range and get an Osama target for Christ's sakes. There were a few downsides, e.g. Muslim Americans got dragged into the shit, and the US decided that it was a good time to also add the Patriot Act in force, but that looks like peanuts compared to the rape and pillage of the organs of the US government by wealthy businessmen, and the nonsense coming out of DC we have to put up with now.
Maybe we need a war. Let the generals push Trump and Elon aside and get the war machine turning. Give the smoothbrains something easy to rally against. Let's just hope we pick a good country to flatten.