at some point if people are gonna let themselves get funneled into the slaughterhouse corridor you gotta just let go of it and get on with your own survival, and that of your family

i hear people talk about teh idea of "standing your ground" but this is utterly ignorant of the historical facts - that ground gets stolen by organised gangs and very often lives are lost pointlessly trying to defend it when the rest of the world is not as violent as the situation on the ground under your feet

for most of the USA i'm not saying leave, just move away from the cities

sure, many country towns are plagued by drunks and drug addicts but the dangers from organised political action decline exponentially in the absence of population full of dupes to coerce, or make sullen and resigned, to attack the political enemies, which are basically the productive people

the whole game is sickening, and participating in politics is condoning it