These things are an attest to a society where pulling away from each other trying to find an illusionary little safe house village where they can attempt to close the outside world off. They will start (already have in not a few cases) to make their own rules for society, their own mini governments and their own little legal, police and defense systems.... a tendency that will continue. Its quite sad to see Americans finding more and more ways of not having more to do with each other rather then building inter community relations, ties... keeping the glue that has defined what an "American" is fresh and holding strong. Typically a refuge for the rather rich, and rather white conservatives... when the rest of the US gets poor enough... these walls and the people hiding inside will get ripped apart by an angry mob the likes of which the US has yet to encounter and evidently is incapable of yet comprehending. I suppose one good thing will come out of the self imposed destruction that awaits the US.... it will show the world once and for all how flawed unbridled laissez faire politics is.. how fated any society becomes in such predictable fashion that treads that path. It leads ironically enough towards a breaking up of a society into more and more separate social entities eventually disintegrating into a short lived period of near anarchical condition... followed by a long period of some form or another of localized anything but democratic authoritarian mini states in which the exact freedoms so fanatically sought by those who originally pushed the country down that road are near totally lacking.... You might as well have been born in 14th century central Europe.... What they do to your personal business practices at present is like totally unimportant :) RicB
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