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In reply to the discussion: FG refusing to pay any of his fine for contempt [View all]Celerity
(43,118 posts)which would likely trigger off a 'Revenge For The God Emperor' shooting war, so that would not a good thing AT ALL.
He literally committed hundreds of millions of USD in fraud via illegal valuation manipulations over the years, and as soon as the 'right' person came into the DA's office, poof goes the whole thing.
A nation ends in terms of long term viability when one side is willing to bin the constructs, constraints, and boundaries that the nation itself operated under, all in a quest for utter power, OR it also ends when the other side, who wants to maintain the nation and norms, refuses, at some point, to do what needs to be done in order to preserve the union.
Lincoln, from the latter group, knew when to colour outside the lines when faced with the snarling, nation-ending dangers that spewed forth the from the former group. There are no Lincolns out there that I see, and perhaps even he would be stopped now by systemic inertia.