@Cirrus Light
Yeah, that’s all fine and good, but people tend to trample all over them still, either in individual cases, or like the Japanese Americans.
Which is unfortunately, terribly true.
But something to bear in mind is that The People aren’t helpless to this.
I don’t want conflict, I certainly don’t advocate for it, but I do think people should be ready to defend themselves and our western values of liberty if necessary. As such, I think it’s important people realize that we’re not helpless passengers to a corrupt system trampling over us. Not only is there some degree of functionality left in the system, that should be used to repair it, but if the government were to go full tyrant, they wouldn’t stand a chance.
People of every persuasion should be aware of the facts of the matter. If you don’t believe it,
watch this analysis of it. The points I’d add are:
- CONUS has 100x the area and 100x the population as North and South Vietnam had in the 60’s. Let that sink in.
- The US civilian populace has - estimates range from around 200 to 600 million guns. The military and police combined have about 6 million.
- Veterans outnumber active servicemen roughly 10:1, and thanks to our Founders foresight with the 2nd Amendment, are about as well-armed. You can get licensing to own auto weapons (but you shouldn’t even need that), but truth be told the tactical fire mode is semi-auto, since auto is so inaccurate and burns through ammo so quickly.
These veterans also train others, and if called on, can do that a lot more, too.
- Heavy vehicles and weapons are scary, but their supply lines are vulnerable. They can either use them in cities where they’re ineffective, collatoral damage would create more resistance fighters than they’d kill, and they’re destroying the very infrastructure that produces their fuel and ammo, or they’d be forced to the rural countryside, which Pentagon planners in war games have already realized is completely impossible to control simply because it’s too much ground to cover. Vehicles won’t be able to respond in time in such a large area, and their supply lines would end up stretched so thin they’re impossible to protect.
There’s a reason having vast air superiority and tanks didn’t win against a bunch of agrarian Vietcong farmers who’d never seen a TV and couldn’t read or write.
But the video I linked makes even more important points. And there’s even more vulnerabilities I won’t even describe, but nothing all interested parties aren’t already aware of.
The ultimate conclusion of these war games was that the US would have to feign strength to try to convince people not to fight.
Point is, we really should either figure out how to get along better and compromise instead of continuously having 50% tyrannize over the other 50%, or seriously consider having some parting of ways, because a civil society won’t last when people cease being civil with eachother. It seems trite to ban, censor, block, etc., but it’s only as trivial as a drop of water, and devastating floods come in raindrops. Neither the Civil war nor Revolutionary war kicked off out of nowhere. It was a political climate disturbingly similar to this one that preceded both.
So… there’s the situation that I feel, as I said, that people of every persuasion should be aware of. Though the left should also be aware that something like 2/3rd of the military voted for Trump, so it probably wouldn’t be the most reliable organization for putting down a Constitutionalist movement.
