As K-selection Approaches, The Rabbits Will First Begin Eating Each Other

What happens when resources contract?

David Wiegel at the Washington Post writes that at least insofar as the Democratic Party is concerned, internal politics is becoming a zero-sum game. He quotes Barney Frank’s roundabout way of asserting that the trouble with today’s Dems is there isn’t enough loot left to simultaneously pay off the black Democratic base and white leftist moonbats…

The Big Tent was collection of naturally antipathetic interest groups held together by the prospect of other people’s money. For years there was enough to pay off the white part of the tent with enough left over to satisfy the black side of things. Now that the money’s run out they’re fighting for the same slice of pie. That, by definition, is zero-sum.

One could make an analogous argument about the dynamic in the Republican party. For decades its leadership could talk conservative and vote Democrat. Now it’s time to fish or cut bait. Politicians who could formerly sit on the fence are finding it transformed into a 12 foot slide made of razor blades, otherwise known as Donald Trump, who has now taken to wearing white golf shoes and a matching baseball cap on the campaign trail.

It is more than that. Amygdala activation is a funny thing. Excitement over one thing can trigger an unrelated action easier. Here Leftists are sensing the tingles in the air, and it is freaking them out. Once freaked out, all it takes is a little irritation from a compatriot, and they will turn on them and explode.

Add in resource restriction, a turning populace, and Donald Trump, and it only makes it worse.

Wait until the whole government collapses, food deliveries to cities cease due to piracy, vibrant gangs go on regular patrol for victims to rape, rob, and murder, illegals take some of the few jobs Americans need to survive, and everyone realizes the government has not only spent all of their money, but also spent all of the money they will make for the next fifteen years.

Apocalypse Cometh™