Everyone is talking about not taking it anymore but you know what? too many have too much to lose to rise in violence, and that’s all that’s left, or haven’t you noticed that the response of the thugocracy to the tea parties and 9/12 and even New Jersey and Virginia has been a big frig you, we’re gonna do what we’re gonna do and you can’t stop it. No. I see slavery ahead.

A big part of that “too much to lose” mentality has been driven by the stock market’s rally since March, combined with the whole “green shoots” message out of the media and government. Once those factors are exposed as false, and the evidence is mounting, especially on the “green shoots” side, the cost-benefit analysis starts to look different.

Don’t anyone buy into the conservative meme being trotted around lately that has the 2010 midterms a referendum on the passage of health care reform. For those who are old enough (well you actually don’t have to be that old) the 1994 elections were a referendum on the Democratic party largely by Democrats themselves. The Democrats failed at passing health care reform and so their most energized base voters stayed home.

That’s an empirical statement, so I presume you have some data to back it up, right? The Dems’ “most energized base voters” are to the Left of Lenin. You really think people like that are going to sit out a political campaign, when it’s the only thing that they think makes their lives worth living?

Boy, did Praetorian pick the right pseudonym or what?

The Praetor (from which Praetorian is derived) was a semi-high official in ancient Rome, and Praetorian clearly sees himself as one of the self-anointed elites, though not one of the leaders.

Americans have been lucky, historically-speaking, to be relatively immune from large-scale political violence. This may be about to change. I hope it happens while I’m still young.