Reply #29: I think that we are on the cusp -

[Eye and Monkey]

We might pull back. Still, we get closer and closer.

There aren't any direct parallels that I know of - but I've seen some of the breakdowns that led into some of the most appalling humanitarian crises of the last decade.

The media, the message, the way people act toward each other. And the reveling in the rhetoric of violence and absolutism. It doesn't bode well.

When is the point of no return, I don't know. Civil violence is a hard hard thing - a thing that few people in the US can truly imagine.