Quote Originally Posted by jp1 View Post
Why would they bother polling people about something that has zero chance of happening. If anyone is going to start a war with us it’s not going to be soldiers and tanks moving down Main Street USA.
So it would seem, but the longer I live the less certain I am about discounting the “zero chance” possibility. Who would have thought we’d be celebrating German rearmament? Or that there would be a Trump administration? Or that the Cubs would win a World Series? History can often mock complacency in bloody ways.

Nor do I much credit polls about hypotheticals. I suspect that in a real “Red Dawn” situation behaviors would be quite different. A lot of F-150s with “These Colors Don’t Run” bumper stickers would be turbo-boosting toward Ensenada or Moose Jaw. A lot of Priuses with “Coexist” stickers would be silently hurrying to the sound of the guns with IEDs in their NPR totes. These sorts of questions tend to encourage cheap bluster and passive-aggressive sneering.