No. of Recommendations: 1
Political violence - check
More feeling violence can be justified - check
More prone to joining such fringe movements - check
Culture decay continues - check
Family structure breakdown - check
More need for government to subsidize basic familial responsiblities - check
Resources coming away from other areas as a result - check
Socioeconomic trends negative for a majority or at least a plurality - check
Potential greater recruiting pool for anyone from the 1/6 'protestors' to the Progressive Pro Semites on Campus to the Freedom Fighters of ISIS in France or Berkley - check
More expenditure to prosecute and protect due to that - check
Climate change unresolved with no clear direction partially due to tribalism - check.
Social Security and Medicare Reform undone partially due to tribalism - check
Potential cuts in such possibly increasing the pool of those seduced by fringe groups - check (again:)
Automation putting swaths of people out of work - not yet, but if they are in a bad mood now can you imagine then? They might join book clubs, or they might join other "groups" that make them feel like they belong.
Constitutional Liberties more threatened: Check
People less aware of rights, how they got them, why they are important and therefore more prone to ceding them? Check.
Debt becoming unsustainable, and can NOT be paid by "taxing the 1%" Check
More interventionist foreign policy costing more money? Check.
Said interventionism causing "blowback" - yeah, it's happened like Leftists said on 9/11. Here's hoping they are proven right again - check in advance.
Bottom line: Predicted Punishment: Oh God, yes!
Can links, snuggery, denial, unwillingness to compromise do damn thing about it? Nope.
Will they be distracted by the SP 500 as the end all be all barometer of all things, beasts, and fishes? Yes, in real time
"It's all happening" as Penny Lane would say.
Movie theater butter has never been more useful. "long on butter" to use Club 401K parlance
Victory now comes in daily dribs and drabs.
And will never, ever be reversed.
O Say, can you see?
