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Been hearing yammering about the nation divided against itself, being
torn apart by culture war, end of life as we know it, civil war, yada yada.<\/p>Okay, sure, it happened once before.\u00a0 But there was a fairly clear
geographical division – North against South.\u00a0 What the division now?\u00a0
Suburb against Core?\u00a0 City against Country?<\/p>In a war with clear issues, clear battle lines, colored uniforms and an
honor code to waging war, America lost 620,000 men (plus an unknown
number of non-combatants killed by accident or for lack of food and
medicine as society was disrupted).\u00a0 That’d be more than 6 million
Americans today.<\/p>Without clear issues, battle lines, uniforms or codes of conduct, this
next conflict will be more like Kosovo or Somalia or Syria: everybody
against everybody.\u00a0 The death toll won’t be anywhere near as low as 6
million.<\/p>Maybe society should be moving to establish better lines, set up a
buffer zone, before the actual shooting starts?\u00a0 BLM in Minneapolis and
St. Paul proper, other Liberals inside the 694\/494 loop, Conservatives
outside the ring.\u00a0 Cross the Line of Death at your peril.\u00a0 It couldn’t hurt.<\/p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n