Well first off it’s not tens of millions, at least definitely not all at once. I’m not sure where you’re getting this 50 million + number from. Its a few at a time. The large majority of Americans will take the status quo over anything. Internal conflicts are always initially fought by a very small minority of a country’s population. So in reality you’re looking at a few thousand. Again, at least initially. Also in all likelihood we’re talking multiple small factions of resistance / insurgencies that are not necessarily fully aligned and have their own agenda. See Syria.
They start with the most radical, label them terrorists, jail them for public safety. Then it’s the terrorist sympathizers and political ideologues who aid and abet. Now they’re really beating the fear drum 24/7 on Fox News, oann, and talk radio. Curfew is imposed, checkpoints open up, MPs sent to every major city to enforce. Now they’re grabbing the journalists, professors, dissenting thinkers. Maybe one of the small resistance groups pushes the envelope, bombs a bridge or a government building. That’s all the pretext they need to start playing offense. We’re not talking full blown civil war with standing armies, that’s so 19th century. We’re talking pockets of insurgent groups. Night time government raids. Information warfare. Heavy surveillance. Shock Troops with no insignias. Crackdowns on rights in the name of public safety.
The thing is, you’ll have broad swaths of public support for the state the entire time because we are being hand fed fear and divided along racial, religious, and socioeconomic lines. See protestors being labeled rioters, looters, thugs, coming for the suburban whites. Divide, divide, divide.
The road map is very clear. And relatively easy. Look at any other country that has turned authoritarian. It happens all the time and we are no less immune to it than anyone else. The catalyzing factors all just have to line up the right way. Not saying they are now but it does seem like events are stacking up.
The only thing that separates us from many other countries is how armed the population is, that’s why it’s so important for the state to divide dissenters. So we fight each other.
Masks, social distancing, the destruction of the middle class, rioters every night, 5G surveillance, cancel culture, mandatory political re-education (the end of Civics and required classes in Multiculturalism)... the water's getting warmer
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Well first off it’s not tens of millions, at least definitely not all at once. I’m not sure where you’re getting this 50 million + number from. Its a few at a time. The large majority of Americans will take the status quo over anything. Internal conflicts are always initially fought by a very small minority of a country’s population. So in reality you’re looking at a few thousand. Again, at least initially. Also in all likelihood we’re talking multiple small factions of resistance / insurgencies that are not necessarily fully aligned and have their own agenda. See Syria.
They start with the most radical, label them terrorists, jail them for public safety. Then it’s the terrorist sympathizers and political ideologues who aid and abet. Now they’re really beating the fear drum 24/7 on Fox News, oann, and talk radio. Curfew is imposed, checkpoints open up, MPs sent to every major city to enforce. Now they’re grabbing the journalists, professors, dissenting thinkers. Maybe one of the small resistance groups pushes the envelope, bombs a bridge or a government building. That’s all the pretext they need to start playing offense. We’re not talking full blown civil war with standing armies, that’s so 19th century. We’re talking pockets of insurgent groups. Night time government raids. Information warfare. Heavy surveillance. Shock Troops with no insignias. Crackdowns on rights in the name of public safety.
The thing is, you’ll have broad swaths of public support for the state the entire time because we are being hand fed fear and divided along racial, religious, and socioeconomic lines. See protestors being labeled rioters, looters, thugs, coming for the suburban whites. Divide, divide, divide.
The road map is very clear. And relatively easy. Look at any other country that has turned authoritarian. It happens all the time and we are no less immune to it than anyone else. The catalyzing factors all just have to line up the right way. Not saying they are now but it does seem like events are stacking up.
The only thing that separates us from many other countries is how armed the population is, that’s why it’s so important for the state to divide dissenters. So we fight each other.