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But if it is a sudden change, then yes he should get a physical to make sure everything is okay. It’s one thing to feel called to join the military, but it’s another to spout paranoid nonsense about a civil war with the liberals - that points to mental instability. That would concern me a lot more than anything else here.[/quote]

Ugh, half of my family would be in the loony bin.

OP, see if he remembers any of this today.  And then see how he is over the next few weeks and go from there.  But for folks who can't imagine you didn't know all of this before, let me tell you about my family.  Several formally middle of the road Republicans (think Eisenhower Republicans) have really gone downright nutty lately.  Conspiracy theories, fake news, false flags.  A steady diet of Fox News is really turning them into people I don't know.[/quote]

Spent my 20s working in the Balkans during the wars there.  OP's post and PP'd response describe a lot more men (and women) than you would have thought possible in the US in this day and age.

One lesson I learned in the Balkans is, given a strongman, an inner circle of henchman who prize power over principle, and a significant minority of society which can be manipulated by violence, fear and lies into support for the strongman, society can fall apart in the blink of an eye.  Those who believe it can't happen here, and/or that we haven't taken any steps down that path, well they are in denial.

I find the recent subway bombing to be particularly scary.  A successful, extended campaign of similar incidents over the course of a year or more across the country would begin to tear us apart as a nation in ways you can't imagine if you haven't seen it happen elsewhere. [/quote]

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