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Back Cover Summary
Do you recognize your country? Is America today the same country that you remember growing up? Do you recall better days when people disagreed but they did not see each other as enemies? Where elections and the peaceful transfer of power were a source of national pride? Have you wondered how it is that all this has faded away to be replaced by unrelenting waves of hate? How this poison seeped off the front pages and wormed its way into your home, tearing families apart?
None of this is natural. The American people are the proverbial frog in the pot and a hidden hand has been turning up the heat. America is headed toward a boiling point. It is a classic case of a shift that occurs gradually, then suddenly. This book uncovers that hand. Powerful international and domestic interests have manufactured instability through the use of highly sophisticated tools deployed through social media. Algorithms utilizing psychology based rulesets are being used to manipulate entire populations.
Culture is upstream from politics. If you change the culture then the politics will follow. War is downstream from politics. Culture war inevitably becomes simply war if politics fails to mediate differences peacefully. Many see the Jan 6 2021 attack on Congress as a culminating point. It is looking increasingly like a tipping point.
Was the election stolen? Or was it free and fair? Your opinion on this vital question does not matter at all. It is completely irrelevant. The only thing that matters is a "third of Americans, including 70 percent of Republicans" and "47 percent of independents" believe it was stolen. The only thing that matters more than that, is a substantial minority (in other words millions of people) agree violence is justified to right the wrong they believe happened. That is the crux of the rapidly unspooling instability in the United States.
America is approaching a tipping point where full faith and allegiance to the constitution, to fellow citizens, to ballots, to democracy; will transfer to party, to tribe, to bullets, to autocracy. Consequently, the United States is at risk of a serious escalation of insurgent violence that could be lasting if not effectively contained.
This book explores the powerful forces behind what appears to be a spontaneous uprising - an ‘American Spring’. It shows that the entire thing has been manufactured. The book examines what created the insurrection and efforts that are currently underway to expand that anger into an insurgency. It explains what an insurgency might look like and how it might unfold. The idea that America could collapse into an insurgency like the ones we have fought overseas is unimaginable. Just like an invasion of the US Capitol to stop an election or planes flying into skyscrapers in Manhattan.
