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<blockquote data-quote="RidgeHunter" data-source="post: 1450460" data-attributes="member: 4319"><p>Gimme a break. The whole spiel about "tension being palpable" a "breaking points being reached" is lawlable.</p><p></p><p>Go decade by decade through the 20th century. Two things that come to mind is the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War. Then you have the cold war, energy crisis, gas shortages etc, etc. Now those were some real storms brewing. The tension brewing in America towards the end of Vietnam makes anything now look like a joke. Tension is nothing new, and it's definitely not worse. How soon we forget.</p><p></p><p>There is no public "storm" brewing that's even comparable to any of that. If you watch cable news 24/7 and read political blogs all day at work, it might seem that way. YMMV, I just don't feel we are in the beginning of a civil war, or that the Arizona shooting is the Archduke Ferdinand of our time. I don't see public tension reaching alarming rates, if anything I see complacency interspersed with paranoia.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RidgeHunter, post: 1450460, member: 4319"] Gimme a break. The whole spiel about "tension being palpable" a "breaking points being reached" is lawlable. Go decade by decade through the 20th century. Two things that come to mind is the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War. Then you have the cold war, energy crisis, gas shortages etc, etc. Now those were some real storms brewing. The tension brewing in America towards the end of Vietnam makes anything now look like a joke. Tension is nothing new, and it's definitely not worse. How soon we forget. There is no public "storm" brewing that's even comparable to any of that. If you watch cable news 24/7 and read political blogs all day at work, it might seem that way. YMMV, I just don't feel we are in the beginning of a civil war, or that the Arizona shooting is the Archduke Ferdinand of our time. I don't see public tension reaching alarming rates, if anything I see complacency interspersed with paranoia. [/QUOTE]
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