Am in the UK, I live in the poorer part of a northern town which has 11% ethnic Asian communities. Dr Betz analysis seems to indicate there will be a rural versus southern urban conflict. That part of the analysis doesn't quite stack up, as the rural is primarily empty.
The disempowered white communities that might start an uprising are not a cohesive monobloc geographically, but are spread in every town in poor sink estates - the abandoned northern and central urban towns. But you go 200m from those places and you find quite wealthy districts.
In previous riots here, the poor ended up burning down their own neighbourhoods generally. If the Asian community here was driven out, killed, deported (even though most are born here) or whatever then half the shops would just shut. Then those same said locals would have nowhere to go to get their daily tobacco, vapes, booze, junk food and illicit drugs, other than walking further into town to the big supermarkets. It would just be a self-inflicted wound.
And like most such things, it's all about negatives. They just destroy, in their frustration at being left out of society, which is a legitimate concern. But they don't offer any positives, ie, what would they like to see in place? I suppose nobody really asks them, and they don't realise what they could do, acting together. Rather than going out to destroy, they could set up their own parliaments, activity centres, collectives and so on. The infliction of neo-liberal economics over the last 40 years hasn't just caused an economic desert, but a social one too.
A powerful interview and it’s a warning of what could happen..Being in the UK, but rural I see no evidence of this in my bubble. My experience when visiting cities is a majority in ignorance and apathy , unaware of the forces that are circling.
There is a still a strong belief in authority, so any insurrections will be dealt with severely, especially the peaceful protests. ❤️🩹
A great assembling of what we all have been noting daily during the great Biden clown show, preceded, of course, by decades of decline under Democrat and RINO governance. The factors Prof Betz enumerates are rapidly being suppressed by Trump. We will see how much of Trump’s work will endure—hopefully all of it. A very positive indicator is the disarray and increasing unpopularity of the Clowns, the Democrats. A telling indicator of long-term success will be sweeping increases in Republican membership in Congress in the 2026 elections, and successful rolling back of Democrat election perversion.
Unlike the USA, Britain has a number of factors mired in its national traditions mitigating against fixing their decline, which have only slightly improved since the USA broke away 250 years ago. Britain has no Bill of Rights, which the USA created as a direct consequence of British domination. Britain has only vague societal norms to return to, nothing written. One could argue that British society is almost back where it was in 1776.
Keep your dialog open; it’s needed to help ensure the USA doesn’t swing too far away from a simple return to Constitutionality.
Am in the UK, I live in the poorer part of a northern town which has 11% ethnic Asian communities. Dr Betz analysis seems to indicate there will be a rural versus southern urban conflict. That part of the analysis doesn't quite stack up, as the rural is primarily empty.
The disempowered white communities that might start an uprising are not a cohesive monobloc geographically, but are spread in every town in poor sink estates - the abandoned northern and central urban towns. But you go 200m from those places and you find quite wealthy districts.
In previous riots here, the poor ended up burning down their own neighbourhoods generally. If the Asian community here was driven out, killed, deported (even though most are born here) or whatever then half the shops would just shut. Then those same said locals would have nowhere to go to get their daily tobacco, vapes, booze, junk food and illicit drugs, other than walking further into town to the big supermarkets. It would just be a self-inflicted wound.
And like most such things, it's all about negatives. They just destroy, in their frustration at being left out of society, which is a legitimate concern. But they don't offer any positives, ie, what would they like to see in place? I suppose nobody really asks them, and they don't realise what they could do, acting together. Rather than going out to destroy, they could set up their own parliaments, activity centres, collectives and so on. The infliction of neo-liberal economics over the last 40 years hasn't just caused an economic desert, but a social one too.
A powerful interview and it’s a warning of what could happen..Being in the UK, but rural I see no evidence of this in my bubble. My experience when visiting cities is a majority in ignorance and apathy , unaware of the forces that are circling.
There is a still a strong belief in authority, so any insurrections will be dealt with severely, especially the peaceful protests. ❤️🩹
A great assembling of what we all have been noting daily during the great Biden clown show, preceded, of course, by decades of decline under Democrat and RINO governance. The factors Prof Betz enumerates are rapidly being suppressed by Trump. We will see how much of Trump’s work will endure—hopefully all of it. A very positive indicator is the disarray and increasing unpopularity of the Clowns, the Democrats. A telling indicator of long-term success will be sweeping increases in Republican membership in Congress in the 2026 elections, and successful rolling back of Democrat election perversion.
Unlike the USA, Britain has a number of factors mired in its national traditions mitigating against fixing their decline, which have only slightly improved since the USA broke away 250 years ago. Britain has no Bill of Rights, which the USA created as a direct consequence of British domination. Britain has only vague societal norms to return to, nothing written. One could argue that British society is almost back where it was in 1776.
Keep your dialog open; it’s needed to help ensure the USA doesn’t swing too far away from a simple return to Constitutionality.