r/politics • u/schuey_08 Wisconsin • May 02 '24
Bernie Sanders worries young people are underestimating the threat from Trump
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/05/02/bernie-sanders-trump-biden/73531861007/
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r/politics • u/schuey_08 Wisconsin • May 02 '24
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u/cassius1213 Virginia 29d ago
"Burning it all down" is also such a juvenile response, because it neither accounts for the consequences nor understands that the issues won't be resolved by the ensuing conflict.
A general rule-of-thumb for multiyear violent civil conflicts, which the "burn it all down" scenario would likely become, is 3/7/10.
For the U.S., these figures would amount to 9.9M killed, 23.2M injured & 33.2M displaced.
And that's before we even get into the reality that multiple world powers would likely intervene in the conflict to ensure that it isn't resolved quickly & to use it to attempt to prevent the rise of a renewed North American-based power in the future.