on the French revolution - didn't Marie Antoinette say something about letting them eat cake?
On our current POTUS - i seem to remember something about chocolate cake
rebellions and counter revolutions are a staple of our society. I suppose you could substitute Jacobian with Trumpeters and the French aristocracy with wall street and come to the realization that society is always teetering on an edge. we careen through life in a multi-generational cycle. You can state with absolute certainty that it will fall apart. If someone says it will start on next Tuesday at 3:15 PM, you can state with almost the same certainty they will be wrong.
I suppose the limousine liberals and industrialists and the bankers and the Russians and (add your favorite boogeyman here) are fighting a proxy war. As a middle class schlub i'm stuck, well, in the middle - if i had delusions of grandeur, i could call myself a pawn. At best i'm simply trying to not be a victim to well produced propaganda.
the thing i find interesting is we as individuals recognize the danger but not the moment it changes - the
proverbial black swan event. I prep because black swans tend to be almost random and entirely unpredictable. The high impact, low frequency random event.
I did find the comment about the pendulum swinging back toward normalcy a bit short sighted. the pendulum describes normalcy. In its march from one 'extreme' to the next it sets the boundaries of our current zeitgeist. It is when its momentum changes suddenly that we are thrown into chaos.
