This should be brief, because when I get involved and specific it only seems to do me good, and I already know what I think.
Fernandez over at Belmont makes (as usual) an excellent point about the extent to which any society can bear up under questioned legitimacy. This is precisely the point I was making, from the POV of Constitutional legitmacy and how much the Left expects to 'reform' it towards a (utopian) endgame. CNu is convinced that today's sans-coulletes (pardon my French) are not going to wait for reform and will enjoin a new racialized civil war. I know (speaking of vitae) that as a security dude, he gets paid to think the unthinkable, and as a radical fly in the flyover buttermilk, he has some reasons to believe that he is surrounded by clones of McVeigh. But nevermind all that, what's up with London is what's up.
Myself being informed by the likes of Mark Steyn and Jared Diamond, I am prepared to write of various swaths of social democrat Europe. But if Steyn's predictions are to come true, then the interesting tipping point will be to see whether it is religion or left liberalism that tips the balance of trust away from the current governments.
Is it the hostility of fundamentalists to the common law at most erodes confidence in Western government? Or is it the oppositionalism of Prorgessive politics that engenders a greater distrust? Or are the 'yoot', inherently rebellious with no sense of guiding principles, the energy of dissolution?
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