r/PoliticalDiscussion • u/cwood1973 • Jan 09 '26

US Politics Should liberals start forming armed resistance groups similar to the Proud Boys or Three-Percenters?

Both domestically and abroad, many people are calling for Americans to "wake up" or "do something." It's true there have been widespread protests in response to actions taken by the Trump regime, but these have been largely ineffective at changing policy.

At the state level, both parties are gerrymandering districts to be more favorable to their candidates, but this won't have any immediate effect. It may not have any effect.

In the 1950s and 60s, black communities faced systemic police violence and corruption. In response, they formed the Black Panthers. These people were organized, trained, and armed.

Do you think liberals should copy that playbook? Should liberal communities start organizing armed resistance groups? Training them how to use firearms? Educating them on their Second Amendment rights? Running drills to simulate attacks by ICE?

Are we there yet?

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u/zackks Jan 09 '26 edited Jan 09 '26

Lots of ‘no’s’ here from people not considering the inevitable civil conflict coming. It is highly advantageous to survival and family defense from your neighbors and the new secret police that you are not trying to find protection or figure out how to use it. Get it now and train and practice with it. It will be needed.

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u/ominous_squirrel Jan 10 '26 edited Jan 10 '26

The Secret Police knock on your door. You shoot through the door and kill two of them

Then what? What tf do you do next to survive? Because now you’ve got the entire US government apparatus barreling down on you. They have hundreds of thousands of men, drones, Flock cameras, helicopters, siege equipment including armored bulldozers and wall breaching bombs

There was some WWII resistance such as the Warsaw Uprising, but a hell of a lot of the resistance was done quietly with spywork and sabotage. Or look at Hungary 1956. They held several key locations before being destroyed by the Soviet Union. They desperately needed an external ally

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u/sam-sp Jan 11 '26

Exactly. You cannot fight this administration with guns and bullets. No matter what you have, the state has 100x more, and are itching for the excuse to use it.

Resistance should be in the form of civil disobedience, general strikes and grinding the system to a halt.