Glenn Beck
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He was out of his mind.
He was dangerous.
Third thing that happens, delayed mobilization, because a peacetime public does not sacrifice easily.
They do not accept shortages.
They do not tolerate casualties.
They don't want to reorient their daily life.
So the nation responds too slowly, and in war, time is not neutral.
The fourth thing that always happens is eventually reality shocks, and it forces the alignment if you can get all the players still in the same place.
There's an attack.
There's an economic collapse.
There's visible escalation.
In Britain, it took the bombing of London.
It took the Blitz.
In the U.S.
during World War II, it took an attack on Pearl Harbor.
We have been here before.
This is exactly what happened with Pearl Harbor.
And nobody wanted to go to war in World War II.
Nobody wanted to fight the Germans.
Until something that shock happens, large parts of the public resist the wartime frame.