If violence comes, I don't think it will be like the war of secession with uniformed armies. I think its most likely form would be terrorist tactics. If it goes past assassination attempts on politicians to non-government members of the other tribe, uniforms will be political bumper stickers and shirts. I have some shirts from years ago …
If violence comes, I don't think it will be like the war of secession with uniformed armies. I think its most likely form would be terrorist tactics. If it goes past assassination attempts on politicians to non-government members of the other tribe, uniforms will be political bumper stickers and shirts. I have some shirts from years ago that I never wear, they'd make good rags. Bumper stickers, hell no. No matter which tribe. they make you a target of the other tribe. Who knows if and when that might happen. You could have a house full of guns and ammo and get sniped. Better to do as little as possible to make yourself a target of opportunity.
When I lived in the States I had anti-Bush bumper stickers in my car and my tires kept getting slashed. I had no enemies, no crazy exes, I figured it must be the bumper stickers. As much as I resented having to take them off - early right-wing censorship (today it's more left-wing censorship), I consoled myself thinking, "They won the battle but I won the war. They have to live in this shitty country that's destroying them and I'm moving to a free country.' Kind of an ugly thing to think about the mother country but that's how I felt twenty years ago...the US was going downhill but I had no idea how bad it was going to get.
What weirds me out is going down there and knowing some nutbag with a gun and a grievance could show up and mow everyone down. While i realize the likelihood of that happening is fairly small, it's not as small as it was a few years ago. But then I walk into a CVS or a Kroger's or something and everyone's all normal and stuff.
If violence comes, I don't think it will be like the war of secession with uniformed armies. I think its most likely form would be terrorist tactics. If it goes past assassination attempts on politicians to non-government members of the other tribe, uniforms will be political bumper stickers and shirts. I have some shirts from years ago that I never wear, they'd make good rags. Bumper stickers, hell no. No matter which tribe. they make you a target of the other tribe. Who knows if and when that might happen. You could have a house full of guns and ammo and get sniped. Better to do as little as possible to make yourself a target of opportunity.
When I lived in the States I had anti-Bush bumper stickers in my car and my tires kept getting slashed. I had no enemies, no crazy exes, I figured it must be the bumper stickers. As much as I resented having to take them off - early right-wing censorship (today it's more left-wing censorship), I consoled myself thinking, "They won the battle but I won the war. They have to live in this shitty country that's destroying them and I'm moving to a free country.' Kind of an ugly thing to think about the mother country but that's how I felt twenty years ago...the US was going downhill but I had no idea how bad it was going to get.
What weirds me out is going down there and knowing some nutbag with a gun and a grievance could show up and mow everyone down. While i realize the likelihood of that happening is fairly small, it's not as small as it was a few years ago. But then I walk into a CVS or a Kroger's or something and everyone's all normal and stuff.