re: #391 jaunte

Agree. These “crazies” about which some seem so concerned are the same ones that show up at G7/12/20 meetings all over the world and do their thing… it gets a little bit of coverage… and then… ?

It all fades away.

That’s because self-destructive behavior is self-limiting.

As I posted the link (earlier today) to the NYT article on what the neighbors think in NYC, eventually people just want to get on with their daily lives and the attention getters get pushed out of the way.

More deeply rooted fears/concerns/uncertainties abound in this country over the security of jobs and savings/investments, and any good marketer ought to be able to tap into that reservoir of angst to sell this or that idea/fantasy.

Yet this country is not composed of those who are readily predisposed to some radical Trotsky-like revolution.

It just isn’t.

Time and again we’ve seen that the cultural milieu of this nation is mostly flavored by religious and nativist sympathies. That’s why the TP movement trades in those “values” - it’s what the market demands.