I guess I don\u2019t know for sure what most people think nowadays but from my vantage point it seems clear that the world is going insane.\u00a0 And it seems to be accelerating.\u00a0 Crazy things happen almost constantly and no one even bats an eye at them anymore.\u00a0 At the same time, it feels like some people (Trump and his administration) are trying to course correct.\u00a0 To give an analogy, it\u2019s as if a pilotless airliner at twenty thousand feet was flying straight toward the ground and finally a pilot takes the controls and is trying desperately to pull the plane out of the nose dive while the rest of the crew tries to stop him.\u00a0 It\u2019s like a madhouse where the lunatics are running the asylum.\u00a0 So how does all of this end up?<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve got to be honest, I\u2019m not very hopeful.\u00a0 I think we have a chance but so many things have to go right for us to survive this that it seems much more likely that we\u2019ll come up short.\u00a0 The main problem seems to be that people nowadays just don\u2019t seem very bright.\u00a0 They believe things that are just obviously not true.\u00a0 Take this transgender thing.\u00a0 The whole millennial generation were completely alright with going along with the idea that drugging and mutilating children was the appropriate healthcare for a childhood delusion that they allowed mentally unbalanced teachers to indoctrinate their kids into.\u00a0 How in the name of all that\u2019s rational can this be possible?\u00a0 And yet this is just one of a host of crazy ideas that have taken hold across the country.\u00a0 Defund the Police was another really stupid idea.\u00a0 Open Borders was also a suicidal policy that was put into effect even though it went against federal laws.\u00a0 None of these ideas make any sense and all of them were allowed to happen because apparently people are too stupid, scared or evil to stop them.<\/p>\n
And so, I have to say if there are that many Americans who are unconnected from reality it doesn\u2019t seem likely that we can avoid a major societal catastrophe.\u00a0 Near the top of the list is a major war.\u00a0 I guess that means a nuclear exchange.\u00a0 I don\u2019t really believe that the \u201cnuclear winter\u201d that has been used to try and scare everyone will finish off over five billion people.\u00a0 But I do know that a full nuclear exchange will devastate this country horrifically.\u00a0 We might lose thirty percent of the population in the first few days.\u00a0 And the disruption to the food supply chain might kill another thirty percent.<\/p>\n
And war is not the only disaster to consider.\u00a0 The geniuses in Washington who had China mutating bat viruses into bioweapons screwed us up pretty well with a cold virus.\u00a0 The idea that these same psychopaths might try something with Ebola or small pox has to give one pause.\u00a0 And there are endless other scenarios that could wreck our civilization pretty thoroughly.\u00a0 So that\u2019s kind of why I\u2019m not very bullish on our future.<\/p>\n
But at the same time, I have all my chips bet on us getting through.\u00a0 And those chips are my kids and grandkids.\u00a0 I haven\u2019t gathered up the clan and flown off to some tropical island with only dolphins and manta rays for neighbors.\u00a0 The United States, for better or worse, is the last best hope of humanity.\u00a0 This is our last stand.\u00a0 We have to make this work somehow.\u00a0 I give Trump full marks for trying.\u00a0 He could buy that island and take his family there and wait out the apocalypse.\u00a0 But he\u2019s not going down without a fight.\u00a0 Every day he tries to pull us out of this nose dive and every day the lunatics try to pull him away from the controls.<\/p>\n
One thing\u2019s for sure; it\u2019s compelling drama.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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