re: What needs to happen?

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All I can say to the dudes planning to practice meditation and commune with Bambi in the woods during the collapse of our country, I’m glad my ancestors didn’t take this route in the 1700s. At least they gave us about 220 good years.

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The "enemy" then was a foreign nation across an ocean that could send only a few thousand soldiers at a time, and a conflict that had a clear end goal.

If you think a civil war where 100 million-plus Americans die along with destroying vast infrastructure and food supplies would solve any problems or make America "better", you're living outside reality. It would also be an almost immediate invitation for China and/or Russia to swoop in and end us while we're down.

Using violence - or the threat of - against those who disagree with you in order to "change" them is straight out of the 2026 progressive playbook.

Now if you want to talk peacefully balkanizing or secession and giving power back to the states/a region of states under a common flag - I'd be down with that and would throw all my support there

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All I can say to the dudes planning to practice meditation and commune with Bambi in the woods during the collapse of our country, I’m glad my ancestors didn’t take this route in the 1700s. At least they gave us about 220 good years

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I certainly don’t claim to be an expert on the founders of the United States of America. But I do read a little bit.

I have no clue about your ancestors. But there are plenty of examples of our founders practicing self-reflection and introspection; as well as solitude, walking, and thinking in nature, if you read some of the journals of John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and others.

Also, during this “collapse of our country”, what else would you recommend for those of us who are trying to improve ourselves?