I don’t doubt what you say will happen. However now a little more than in the past I am coming to believe that if they get too carried away with the repression you may see more resistance than you expect. That’s what I took away from the Bundy incident.I understand that the more we resist the more brutal the repression will become but is possible that brutality may engender an even greater and more dynamic resistance.
It has often played out that way in other countries when the despots have pushed too hard. The right spark is out there.
Look at the Sterling case if you want to see how the zeitgeist can totally destroy a person’s rights in the face of totalitarianism, and instill a precedent for institutionalized repression that is rarely resisted or overcome.
When this people see the public punishment of those targeted, few are going to be willing to risk what is necessary. Hell, look at how quickly the churches are folding to the mob pressures to marry homosexuals.
The long war is not something I think this people are willing to endure given how soft we have become in our prosperity and how quickly we expect gratification.
Just an observation we need to be mindful of for our own survival.