Welcome to World War 3

Donald Trump is appointing Hard Right folks to his security positions.  The HRS (Hard Right Sheeple) think this is a good thing.  "I feel safer already." "Much better than Obozo."  "Donald Trump said he was for law and order, and he meant it."  Which not oddly were spoken and/or appeared on blogs of Breitbart, Fox News, and Rush Limbaugh's show, because like all good Polly Parrots, HRS never have an original thought.

Remember the big flack over the NSA snooping on people it shouldn't have been snooping on?  That began under Bush Jr. not under Obama.   Because Uncle Crackhead (Limbaugh) said that Obama did it, the HRS all nodded their heads in unison, like the good little automatons that they are, and they went to the streets and to cyberspace and preached the bad word.

Regardless of who was responsible for the invasion of privacy, it was nothing like it's going to be.  A Conservative government is a snooping, prying government.  Think "1984" and "Big Brother is Watching."    If you have things that you don't want the government to know about, you'd best clean them up before January 20th, because Big Brother is going to know about them.

Now you may think that it's a good thing that the government should be more vigilant than less, because after all there are terrorists plotting things. If the idea is to catch the terrorists, which it should be, then its better to over-snoop than to under-snoop, as less is missed that way.  The problem lies in the fact that the Hard Right types tend to go overboard on security and tend to overreact.   If the military had its way, we would have nuked Russia 60 years ago.  Of course, we would have gotten nuked ourselves.  But the military sees it as a numbers game,  and that 50 to 60 million lives lost is a good thing if the enemy loses 120 to 140 million.  They see that as a win.    And that's the problem.  The people Trump is appointing do see things that way.  And Trump, being a complete neophyte on military strategy and foreign policy, is going to take most of what those people tell him at face value.    And that will be catastrophic.

There's a reason that diplomacy is sought first before going to war.  The next world war will be the last one for civilization.   The type of people that Trump is appointing are long on action and all-too-short on diplomacy, scarily like Vladimir Putin of Russia.  And when you pit two superpowers who are heavy on action and light on negotiation against each other, it's just a matter of time before the friction sets off the chain reaction that ends life as we know it.   It's almost happened on four different occasions during the Cold War.  Three were under Republican administrations; the fourth was the Cuban Missile Crisis, during which we couldn't do much other than what we did.

If you're frightened by the idea of a Trump administration for the reasons I stated, you're not alone.  According to companies who sell survivalist shelters (a.k.a. bunkers, bomb shelters) and supplies, sales have gone up over 1200% since Trump was elected.

Heaven help us.