“Until the power goes out in cities, which will happen, “
That’s just a fantasy of loons online that hype themselves up on their fantasy of some war of the scope of the 1860s taking place in the 2020s.
Like what idiotic thing will that achieve other than turning otherwise disinterested people against whatever side is dumb enough to do it?
” The IRA was tiny and virtually unarmed compared to what tens of millions of conservative Americans have in their gun safes today.”
I hate to break this to you, but “tens of millions of conservative Americans” arent going to engage in killing anyone when most of them cant even be bothered to do something like the Yellow Vests in France are doing.
IF this ever happens, it will be a limited deal, with some large but isolated incidents on occasions, but no side is going to be some massive organized army with advanced weapons marching on some city to lay waste to it or conqueror some region.
It isnt going to be “Rural Vs. City” or some fantasy “race war” either. Most people aren’t going to want anything to do with this, and any side with some nutcase that just starts killing innocent people because they “fit” some trope of whom they think the “bad guys” are, will quickly lose public support, and doom whatever cause they had.
“I hate to break this to you, but “tens of millions of conservative Americans” arent going to engage in killing anyone when most of them cant even be bothered to do something like the Yellow Vests in France are doing.”
That’s a non sequitur. Claiming anything and everything must be done first is just plain silly. We Americans know that the yellow vests are not going to change much. Put us in a corner and we’ll burn down continents.
It’s hard for me to imagine widespread sustained civil unrest happening while the poorest are the most likely to be obese and are the most entertained poor people ever.
Freegards
I can easily imagine a future rat president ordering exactly that.
Self-defense wise conservatives will resist if they are physically threatened. As you say though unless them or their families are in harms way most will continue to get up and go to work and obey the law, go along get along.
However, the left may not allow this at some point and cells will spring up taking the fight to the government and the left which would run the government more than likely in some form. As to whether it breaks down along urban vs. rural or white vs. black or black vs. Hispanic, who knows. These cells will have to make these attacks hurt their enemies and not most of their neighbors and in the process make the government and the lefts heavy handed response hurt not just the targeted white conservatives for genocide but the rest of society to gain sympathy and support from the locals.
It would be as you say, small for the most part but there would be big events through the process and depending on the US military’s response, short or a lengthy in duration and above all a nasty affair. There would be huge sections of the country the left/government just could not physically control, there are not enough troops or law enforcement to be every place all the time.
They could move in and control an area sure, as long as they leave a substantial force in place, but as soon as they move that force to control another area, they lose control of where they just left. But the conservatives may have no choice as the left seems hellbent to force their crazed ways on the people.
I am quite sure that something similar was said at the very early stages of the Russian Revolution, when all of Russia was utterly exhausted from the massive casualties of WW1 and the resultant famines. Yet, massive armies all over Russia ended up fighting in their Civil War.
As I say to everyone that I know, I don’t have a working crystal ball, nor have I ever heard of anyone who does. You may be right, and you may be wrong...but Mr. Bracken has a pretty good handle on how the Left thinks and acts, and certain acts create other natural reactions.
We shall see, shall we not?
Personally, I hope and pray that you are right and I am wrong. I’d love to be wrong.
But I’m reminded that the good folks in Phnom Penh, Kigali, Sarajevo etc etc all believed just the same as you.
Please read this and view the video before writing a reply.
What do you think would happen if this was American conservatives being shot in the face at near point blank range with flash balls? Brighter yellow vests in the next protest?
“Mutilated by Flash-Balls
The number of Yellow Vest demonstrators seriously injured by French police flash-balls increases with every weekend rally. Police sometimes aim directly at the protesters’ heads, which is against regulations. The loss of an eye seems to be a not infrequent consequence of such head shots. The following report from France interviews two victims of flash-balls.”
https://gatesofvienna.net/2019/01/mutilated-by-flash-balls/