Not going conservative Arraya, just looking at how risk impacts the average Joe(me),regardless of how some of those risks get embedded into our society by those stinking conservatives and liberals. Realizing risk is a fact of life, what really matters is; do I see it clearly and what can and can’t I do about it relative to immediate importance to me …or, in the case of “Three Weeks to Chaos” type false alarms, lack of.

Events like you mentioned don’t surprise me, however otherwise disturbing they are. They don’t qualify as a desperate spiral to doom regardless if they are the result of eons of unjust schemes, from conservatives.They always happen in different flavors.They could, of course, spiral, but I don’t see revolution on a grand scale coming. I think (more)international warfare will come before that. If it doesn’t this is just another hiccup.