“If you won’t fight back, there’s nothing they can’t do to you.”
Beautifully put.
Not everyone in this community fully appreciates the real potential dynamics at work here. To wit:
In the (first) American Revolution, no more than 3% of the colonists ever shouldered a rifle and fired upon the British. At the same time, about a third of the population fully supported the cause of independence.
If worse came to worst today, I think we’d see a greater percentage of Americans willing to stand their ground and defend their homes, families, and country, from a government they no longer recognize. I believe the percentage would be greater because America now has a long established history as a sovereign nation and people now. That wasn’t precisely the case in the mid 1700s.
If I had to guess, I’d say the percentage of those who stood and fought would be at least 10% today. I would also guess that about 50% of the population would fully support such a last resort defense.
Even the best equipped, most advanced military on the planet, can’t contend with an insurgent force of 30,000,000 armed and committed combatants.
During the ten years our military was tied down in Iraq, there were never more than an estimated 15,000 insurgents on the ground at any given time. And they tied our high tech military down with little more than AK-47s and IEDs. In the end, our forces left without achieving a total, unqualified victory.
Now imagine the same military faced with a similar, but much larger, and even more committed insurgency in their own country. For reasons too numerous to mention in this post, there’d be no hope of defeating such a home grown army.