A Blog is a lot like talking to one's self. You think out loud and type your thoughts into the web with the faint hope that someone out there will see them and perhaps see something of value in them.
 When I started this one I had been active on several web sites and had been a part of several conversations that seemed to stir my mind to look inward. Then as world events moved onward my mind wandered and other things came to mind. I posted on terror in my last two posts and those were almost a year apart as I waited to look at what was happening around me.
  I feel there is something very wrong going on today. Here in the US we see clearly for the first time that our election process is a farce, and that a small group of party elites have been running the show and they work in cahoots with each other.
  Hillary has been promised, the slot as the first woman president and the powers that rule her party will stop at nothing to achieve that goal even if it means destroying the country as it exists under the constitution to do it.
  On the other side of the isle the republican party elites have long used the presidential candidate position to reward old party loyals for their service even if they have no chance of success.
  Both parties assume that the voters are loyal to their party and will vote the party line no matter who they send out front.
  There seems to be the very real possibility that the US as we know it, and have known it, is about to self destruct. A civil war looms on the horizon no matter who may win in November and neither party seems to give a damn.
  Perhaps its just old age and my natural paranoia at play here. But there are things happening that seem very wrong.
  The Republicans seem happy to cede control to the Democrats and them selves to second place. They also seem to have absolutely nothing for which they will stand and fight.  There is no issue or position that they will not compromise on or back away from. And there are the news stories of the Secret Service pressuring elected officials with blackmail over past indiscretions. 
  The Democrats have finally dropped all pretense of not being socialists/communists and it seems to have little effect on their base as generation after generation of college educated young people seem to embrace the idea. However these same young people are having a devil of a time living in the real world. Just a week ago a college campus went mad and students were scared almost to death when someone wrote the word TRUMP in chalk on a few walls. Not death threats or racial slurs just the word TRUMP.
   With the growth of immigrant enclaves forming in many states, and the recent tendency of these groups to form neighborhoods that retain their own languages and standards and to avoid integration and assimilation it is only a matter of time before traveling to another state is like traveling to another country. Complete with very different languages and laws.
  That so many of these immigrants are here with no permission seem to make no difference. That we have no jobs for them seems to make no difference. And that without workers paying taxes the government has no money to support them is just more of the same.
  I am afraid that Hillary may be more than the first woman president of the US, she may be the last president of the US. Because it won't be long before it all falls apart.  

The PLO, PLA, SLA, Hagannah, Viet Minh, Muslim Brotherhood, NLF Red Army Faction, FALN, Fatah, PMOI, Shining Path, ISIS, ISIL, Al-Quaeda, and the list goes on and on and on.

  Group after group, place after place, year after year the beat and the death just keeps on going on.

  The Viet Mihn were called bandits and warlords at first, then they became the Viet Cong and the People’s Liberation Front, and suddenly they were “Freedom Fighters” in the eyes of many. The PLO highjacked airliners full of people and shot and killed many. They demanded ransom, and often blew the planes up when the TV cameras went dark. Today they are the “Leaders of Palestine”.

   In the American media the old saying holds true that “the enemy of my enemy is my friend.” As long as the Democrats held the White House the money flowed to Vietnam to fight the war started under Kennedy, and when Nixon took office it suddenly became “Nixon’s War” and congress and the media turned against it.

  We condemn the actions of the IS groups but we ignore groups just as bad elsewhere. Just where and why do we draw these lines?

   And let’s just for once be honest here, and I’m not talking to people on the ground in areas occupied or under attack by these groups, except for those do any of these groups REALLY scare you?  Do you really live in fear of ISIL?

   The attacks on 9/11 killed thousands. It was a day very much like December 7^th of 1941 in that regard in that it made Americans mad as Hell, but did it really scare YOU?

   When that bomb exploded in Oklahoma City what did you think? No vast conspiracy, no network of terrorists, just a couple of guys and a little bit of military training. Did that image of a lone nut case scare you?

   Want to know the easy way to overthrow a government?

   You don’t spend millions and kill all your own people in symbolic attacks on buildings that mean nothing to the average person. You do it from within with small attacks that are set to attract attention and at places where the average citizen might go on a regular basis.

  You strike and wait for the people to demand the government do something. Then you strike again somewhere far away from the first attack.

   The Government will do what they always do. Make some symbolic gesture and pass a few laws to restrict the daily life of the average person.

  Then you repeat the first step to show that what they did hasn’t stopped you. This will make the government look bad and the people will demand more action. Which will result in even more laws and even less freedom for many.

  The cycle repeats over and over with each step causing the government to become more and more restrictive and the people less and less free. And each strike will only serve to show that they have failed to stop you. And even better, at some point others will become so disgusted with the government restrictions that they will join your efforts.

   As your numbers grow the government will start to use military to look for you and the sight of soldiers on the streets will scare the people more than any of your attacks. Soldiers are not police and they are not trained to use stun guns and chase people on foot. People will die by military actions which will drive even more to your side.

   The country will explode from the inside as the people will rise up to get rid of what they now see as an oppressive government.

  Every night the media report every shooting as if it were a massacre of biblical proportions. And every citizen thinks that his values and freedoms are being taken from him. The major political parties have joined in by making it look like the primaries are a sham and that a select few have already decided who will be elected.

  What I have described is the Spiral of Oppression. A know tactic of subverting and overthrowing a government. The screw is turning and is being turned by the government, helped by the media, and loudly supported by groups funded by billionaires who stand to clean up after the fall. How far can they screw down the lid before it blows?

  This last should scare you more than any group listed at the top of the page.

   How much more before the society ruptures from the turning of the screw?