08-17-2017, 10:16 AM
I doubt that there will be a wholesale "race war" in the grand sense. I do believe political violence will ramp up significantly in the near future. Combining a toxic political climate with an uncertain and changing economic environment (many times for the worse with respect to the middle and lower classes) will provide the ideal hotbed for the rise of ethnic tribalism and commitment to radical causes.
IMO the best thing to do is try to steer young people in a direction where they feel like they have a future ahead of them with some meaning and success. Encourage military and public service. Do all that can be done at the high school level to point them in a direction where they feel more hopeful than cynical about what's ahead of them. That's a difficult thing to do when adults on both sides of the political spectrum do little more than paint our situation as the decline of civilization at every opportunity.
IMO the best thing to do is try to steer young people in a direction where they feel like they have a future ahead of them with some meaning and success. Encourage military and public service. Do all that can be done at the high school level to point them in a direction where they feel more hopeful than cynical about what's ahead of them. That's a difficult thing to do when adults on both sides of the political spectrum do little more than paint our situation as the decline of civilization at every opportunity.
