My 13-year old granddaughter has never known a day that we weren't at war

[Horse with no Name]

Most of the millennials have always known war in their young lives.
However....we don't act like a nation at war.
There is overindulgence and gluttony and we really don't sacrifice.
Some families of military members do sacrifice---but collectively as a country we don't and we haven't.
I remember my parents and grandparent's talking about rations and my mom saying that it was a treat to have a bologna sandwich and a bottle of coke on a Saturday night.
I am pretty certain that we are going to see what suffering is all about.
It won't be on the side of good vs. evil in the world---it will be to feather the nests of uber wealthy.

[leftofcool]

1. Sacrifice is a thing of the past.

[doc03]

2. I am 68 and I think we have been at war somewhere my entire life nt

[FarCenter]

3. Perpetual War

No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country. Not indeed that after every victory it is to be apprehended that the victorious generals will possess themselves by force of the supreme power, after the manner of Sulla and Caesar; the danger is of another kind. War does not always give over democratic communities to military government, but it must invariably and immeasurably increase the powers of civil government; it must almost compulsorily concentrate the direction of all men and the management of all things in the hands of the administration. If it does not lead to despotism by sudden violence, it prepares men for it more gently by their habits. All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and the shortest means to accomplish it. This is the first axiom of the science.

Quote from Alexis de Tocqueville in
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_war

[RKP5637]

4. The US has been at war my entire life, or about to go to war, or thinking about war. Yeah, peace

loving nation, what a bunch of bullshit. It's a big money maker. War is big business for the US. It's sick! And kids sold on it go to their deaths or come back maimed, or mentally fucked up.