"(as of yesterday) ex-wife"...Congratulations!
Divorce was 90% because of politics is pure BS. The breakup is because someone has a major normalcy bias issue. I will just keep my head in the sand as I only want to think unicorn and fairy dust thoughts. Anything that comes along that makes me think is not acceptable.
Sorry Brother, people like your ex will be beating a path to your (Our) door not unlike zombies from "The Walking Dead" when the SHTF.
Those thoughts above have lurked in my suspicions for some time now. My struggle to understand the how, why and impact of such suspected fears often on display.
A vignette which (might, probably does) supports the clinging to normalcy bias here: Colleen would habitually watch "the news" on TV. Glazed eyes, mouth even slightly open sometimes. First the "local", meaning Phoenix (while we lived in Flagstaff a world away). The usual, inconsequential drivel ending with a sweet, upbeat closing. Followed by the "national" news. She hung on every word of David Muir and/or Lester Holt. Their "news" also always ending with an upbeat, sweet little something. Now... I could tell her _exactly_ what they were going to say and _exactly_ what they were going to leave out because I had seen the source material hours earlier. And "exactly" is no exaggeration, they were as predictable as the Earth's rotation. She _hated_ that. And when I suggested we give three days a week to her networks while I'd get two days for "Fox" (big whup), she'd promise to simply leave the room, wasn't going to listen to it.
I see no linkage between a person's raw intelligence, their innate kindness, their love of friends and family and political tendency. Something other than demonstrable facts and undeniable historic lessons moves many folk. And as unflattering as it may sound, I increasingly suspect it owes to faults of character. A matter of fear, even cowardice, shaping views. We've become a nation of softies, ruined by safety and bounty without end.
We don't get to choose out parents.
We don't get to choose how we are raised or in what circumstances.
So, I do believe, I live in a nation populated by a huge number of people ill-equipped for what's coming. No fault of their own owing to the times they (we) were born into. As to "what's coming"... their denial is not just the proverbial river in Egypt.
And those of "us" who espouse things like "preparedness" or suggest elections are no longer legitimate, we only inflame the fearful, driving them to even greater heights of denial. And rejection.
So now, without family to partake of the security and haven I've tried to construct, let the tides come in. Maybe even zombies are worthy of being saved if for no other reason than to validate our own good. And the hope to be a link to better characters for the future.
