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<blockquote data-quote="Buddhaman" data-source="post: 3451313" data-attributes="member: 12404"><p>So my FIL is freaking out about this election. Worried that people are going to riot and we'll be going into a civil war or something. It got me to thinking and I came up with a theory: folks have been raised waiting for the end of the world and they're getting impatient. WWII we dropped some nukes and started an arms race. Korea and Vietnam we fought the spread of Communism. USSR grew and we handled the Cuban Missile Crisis. Berlin wall fell, USSR dissolved, starting to reform under Putin. China has risen to a global power in commerce and military might. Left Behind was written and Y2K happened. Then 2012 and other "end of the world" times passed. </p><p></p><p>Folks grew up waiting for someone to push the button and it hasn't happened. So we had a few riots in various cities around the US. Now we have a "civil war" coming according to who you listen to. Is this all just the paranoia created by being raised waiting to fight or die? I'm only 33 but my dad served in Vietnam and hated the "Ruskies" but I was raised in Oklahoma with no worries besides sneaking a cigarette or a beer. Did the Boomer generation grow up waiting for the end or is it just the unusual political atmosphere we've arrived at? </p><p></p><p>Tell me oh wise elders, when is the world going to "end"?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Buddhaman, post: 3451313, member: 12404"] So my FIL is freaking out about this election. Worried that people are going to riot and we'll be going into a civil war or something. It got me to thinking and I came up with a theory: folks have been raised waiting for the end of the world and they're getting impatient. WWII we dropped some nukes and started an arms race. Korea and Vietnam we fought the spread of Communism. USSR grew and we handled the Cuban Missile Crisis. Berlin wall fell, USSR dissolved, starting to reform under Putin. China has risen to a global power in commerce and military might. Left Behind was written and Y2K happened. Then 2012 and other "end of the world" times passed. Folks grew up waiting for someone to push the button and it hasn't happened. So we had a few riots in various cities around the US. Now we have a "civil war" coming according to who you listen to. Is this all just the paranoia created by being raised waiting to fight or die? I'm only 33 but my dad served in Vietnam and hated the "Ruskies" but I was raised in Oklahoma with no worries besides sneaking a cigarette or a beer. Did the Boomer generation grow up waiting for the end or is it just the unusual political atmosphere we've arrived at? Tell me oh wise elders, when is the world going to "end"? [/QUOTE]
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