Reply #35: Hard to say

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But disillusionment on that sort of scale, touching as many people who have been in such close touch as I suspect the end-timers surely are, will touch off a wide range of responses. Some of them will surely be mad as hell. What they do with their anger will be based on their personal dispositions. Some of them will turn against the Republicans. Some of them will feel they've been sold out by dollar-hawking hucksters in pulpits. Some of them will withdraw from public life to greater and lesser degrees and for varying lengths of time. Some will surely be nudged over into batshit insanity -- quiet insanity or the noisy kind that makes for compelling headlines.

I think you'll see a lot of depressed people for sure, people who just flat won't give a flying fuck about anything. After getting past the disappointment, some of them will surely take a good, hard look at the life they had been leading, and resolve to do something better, and they will. But the larger, much larger, portion will be seriously (one might almost say righteously) angry, and it's difficult to say what any one of them would do. Remember, though, that they've been actively rooting for the complete annihilation of about three-fourths of humanity in a cataclysmic event. What do you suppose some of them will do when it doesn't happen to their satisfaction or on their timetable?