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How did we get here?

I have often wondered about what people will be thinking twenty years from now about how this republic got to where it is now and if they will wonder "what was wrong with everyone?"

News continues to come out about surveys of US citizens and how close they think we are to actual civil war. The general consensus is about two thirds of the way to the brink. That really is a scary thought, I'm not sure how many people were surveyed but even if it was only one hundred random people that is alarming.
As of right now we stand on the cusp of a potential conflict this country has never seen. If a civil war were to truly commence here it would be one hundred times bloodier and a thousand times more chaotic than our previous civil war. I am a big advocate of the fourth turning theory and if you don't know about it maybe you should look it up, it is scary. Where we are now is according to the theory at the start of a large conflict. This conflict could be civil war, world war, or possibly something we can't even imagine. Most likely a combination of all three.
At the time of myself writing this we have seen this country's fabric be torn apart from the inside and out over the past sixty years or so.
In the nineteen sixties we had civil rights and the war in Vietnam, the weathermen and the black panthers. Protests and riots about America's foreign policy shook the reality of millions.
In the nineteen seventies America saw its first defeat on the battlefield, Vietnam was orchestrated by men who saw world war two and wanted to live in the shadow of it. The problem was that the men they sent there were products of a peaceful time and didn't believe it was just.
The nineteen eighties was a culture boom but American expansionism broiled and South and Central America bore the brunt of it. Defeat after defeat ensued, the war on drugs was lost before it was fought.
After all of this we enter the nineteen nineties with Ruby Ridge, Waco, and Rodney King caused an explosion of government mistrust again. Militias grew from this hatred and although many think of skin head militias there were a host of black and hispanic groups that formed neighborhood watches on steroids.
9/11 was the true major turning point of our republic. We were attacked by an enemy thousands of miles away and it hurt so bad that men and women from all backgrounds, colors, and creeds rose to the occasion and brought back the patriotism of the nineteen fifties. But with that came the PATRIOT act. We as Americans at that moment lost all freedoms and liberties and allowed the government to be our caretakers. We let them.
Years later we had Ferguson, Baltimore, Syria, Bundy Ranch, and our current President Donald J Trump.
Street fights, mass shootings, bombings, and political assassinations abound and we are right at the focal point of a conflict of hatred that has been brewing since the baby boomer's time.
This whole thing will not end well because although we could calm down and save our nation we all refuse to and the law of attraction is bringing forth the United States of America's own Apocalypse.

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