[mistrial9]

but you missed a crucial part -- the post says "pitchforks" but is made by a ninety-nine percent civilized person with manners and education, who is unlikely to actually do the physical act mentioned -- but in the modern day, will Very Likely remember this topic at voting time. Take-no-prisoners politics means that the losing candidate, really actually loses and is therefore out of a job right now. So these are high stakes for political types and they do know it.

Sadly most American politicians on both sides of the aisle would probably vote for cashless right now, but, not all of them... and things do change.

[JetAlone]

Out of autonomy, out of food. Out of a job, out of blood.

Rising flood raises all ships. The stakes will get higher for all of us.

Edit: Besides, the GP's got a slav sounding username. One would be wise not to assume civilization rates in excess of 75%.

Strong slavs make bad times. Bad times make strong slavs.

[time0ut]

Maybe more Russian sounding https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov

[JetAlone]

Russians are a slavic people. There are ethnic subgroups of other backgrounds that live largely within the borders of Russian and have Russian nationality like the Tatars, the Chechens, the Kalmyks etc.