History very adequately demonstrates in a most casual manner all over the globe and through all known historical time that: no one is safe when civil order breaks down. It's never 'good' in any way. Perhaps the Storming of the Bastille brought about a democratic France, still, I'll bet that was a rough time in old Paris those nights. And people are crazy enough all over as it is.
So yeah, it's swell up here in the midst of living in one of the most liberal areas of the nation, and the nation truly is mostly large urban areas that are pretty liberal. I've got my Russian River Brewery and vineyards true enough, but as my pal reminded me the other day he walks out and gets coffee across the street and sits and watches the boats go out of the Marina Del Rey harbor. Yet, between his latte sipping land sailors and my pals swilling their Pliny the Elder, there's a lot of people who are not so liberal. Portland is pretty liberal, and most of the Willamette Valley (Eugene ect) are, but the rest of Oregon, not so much. Most of the Coasts in the US are, inland not so much. And when you look at the area between NYC and LA, that's a lot of area.
And it seems in real bad situations that crazy starts to spread, and people who normally would not go burning and lootin' do. If you can't beat 'em, join 'em, you know? For sure you're not going to be able to get out there and stop a mob all by yourself, right? So faced with this large mass of humans in the process of going all rabid and all, basic self-preservation kicks in and tells you to join that mob right away least it go all rabid on you.
