There are more of us than there are of them. Even if you just take us hard-liners, we outnumber them 10:1. All of us gun owners? 100:1.
They will run out of enforcers well before we run out of resisting gun owners.
And this scenario only supposes that they come for us at home. If they start rounding up gun owners, most of us will be in the wind within a half hour of the word going out. Things will get "exciting" after that...
“I will take a couple of them with me.”
This is the point. If the ‘tyrannists’ - a brand new word coined here that I think is brilliant - the enablers of tyranny -
If the tyrannists wake up from fitful sleep, send meager food down to a stomach filled with knots, and leave their homes by kissing wives and children - perhaps for the last time - to enforce policies they are enforcing only to ensure they aren’t the ones being oppressed, then their re-experimentation with fascism will fail pretty quickly.
Like Kissinger implied, the crisis won’t be ideological. You’ll run to the bosom of the state because they will be the ONLY ones with antidotes, for example.
The ideology will come later.
The kicker here, of course, is indeed - you have to die of something. If death is preferred, then death it is.
Patton’s words, however, also ring in my head. “Nobody ever won a war by dying for their country. They won it by making the other guy die for his (profanity excluded).”
Government, by and large, is horrible at most things. They’ll be horrible at fascism too. As such, the tyrannists won’t have the manpower or equipment to do the job right, and it will end with the tyrannists turning on the tyrants.
“A lie goes halfway around the world before the truth can get its pants on.”
That used to be true. I remember when they tried to frame W with the National Guard letter they concocted in MS Word that got busted on this very forum. Took less than 8 hours.
The truth is catching up with the lies. It’s going to be an interesting collapse. If the GDP contraction was the surprise they thought it was, it will be sort of funny too.
Unlike the German Fascists of the 1940s, our infrastructure is a LOT more delicate...
And nowadays, people are just fracking sissies if they ain't got their lectricity n fast food n grocery stores.