PoliticalSavant

Those 8 items are how you achieve demoralization and help to create destabilization. Another big event is needed to really set that in motion, however (covid, war, etc). Destabilization makes the nation vulnerable to crisis. With crisis comes sweeping change. A 9th item might be collapsing trust in the existing system, and fomenting that anger.

The smart people have been saying for quite some time that Democrats and Republicans are both leading the nation down this road. Less intelligent people think it's only "the other side."

Had an argument with a blue tsunami surfer the other day. He said it's the government's job to provide for the people. This is the mentality out there. I told him that when the government becomes provider, it does not provide anything, instead it controls everything.

The real insidious part is that many people that would otherwise be in the middle and apolitical will become radicalized by corruption and intentional disorder. They will rebel and blame the system rather than those running it.

All of this will get worse before it gets better.

Running QB's give Kirby problems. We might see USC upset Georgia.