Kythas, your customers are expressing a very common viewpoint these days. There has always been talk of revolution and succession going back to the original Revolution, coming from a disgruntled fringe of society on either side. The difference these days is that you are hearing such talk from larger and larger numbers of people who are increasingly from the mainstream of society. The fringe elements from the past were often possessed of kind of cultic ideas about their own role in a post revolutionary world. But these days, you've got IT people, soccer moms, pastors, cops, insurance salesmen, and lawyers, among others, who are feeling not so much like they would like to start a rebellion against the government, but rather like they are being pushed into one by that government. They don't want to initiate one, but they are feeling like it may be thrust upon them by an out of control, grasping, overarching government which has forgotten that it governs at the pleasure of the people.Kythas wrote:I travel a lot for work, all over the US and Canada.
In the US, one thing I've noticed over the last 12-18 months talking to my customers is the absolute certainty that the United States is headed for either another revolution or a second civil war. No matter the political leanings of my customers (who, strangely, have been overwhelmingly conservative or libertarian, even in Canada) they all believe this. Almost all of my US customers state if either a revolution happens, or Texas secedes, they will all pack up and move to Texas, as this is seen as the best place to be in either event. I would say 95% of my customers have flat out told me if Texas secedes, they will drop everything and move here the next day.
In fact, on my flight home yesterday there was a couple from Pennsylvania who were coming to Dallas because they bought some land here to retire on. When I asked them why they bought land in Texas the husband said "The tax situation, no snow, and when the revolution comes Texas is where I want to be."
I believe this speaks volumes as to the confidence the average American has in our current Federal government.
As a side note, my Canadian customers - almost to a person - have told me that we Americans should fight socialized medicine with everything we have. Very few of them love their health care system.
That's a huge difference: seeking revolution like the ever-present fringe versus the feeling of being pushed to that point like so many in the mainstream today. The sheer blindness of the left's deliberate unwillingness to believe that this is what they've done is appalling. But as I have posted many times, there are none so blind as those who refuse to see.