“When it comes to communists killing or imprisoning those who do not support their totalitarian state, we took an oath long ago, and that oath had no expiration date.”
However, I’ve sworn a FAR more important oath to my family. You see, my paternal grandfather’s father was stripped of all of his property in Russia in the 1920s, property that he had done back-breaking work over the course of 4 decades to acquire. He was allowed only to retain his home. Forward to 1936, when he had cancer and couldn’t work to put food on his table - from a man who had been wealthy not long before. So he rented 3/4 of his house to 3 other families...and before long, someone reported him. This sick old man was dragged to an NKVD prison by Stalin’s goons, and nearly beaten to death before being released. A few months later, in 1937, he was again taken away (for no particular reason, nothing else had happened and he wasn’t collecting any rent), and this time the SOBs actually did beat him to death. I remember, as a kid in 1969, my grandfather crying like a baby after he got back from a brief visit to what was left of his family nearly 50 years after he had come here. Undoubtedly, he first found out what had really happened on that trip. I will NEVER forgive Communism or its adherents for what they did to him and to the rest of that side of my family (because those who survived lived in what was effectively a gigantic open-air prison for 75 years).
So my vow to my present family is that if Communists or their thinly-veiled ideological compatriots take over this country, and they try to do something similar to us, that this time it will not be for free - not by a LONG shot. If they succeed, it will be at the highest cost that I can inflict upon them.
If the 3% of the population or even one tenth of that number is serious, then the totalitarian left can be stopped in their tracks. It's all a question of where our country is with respect to Claire Wolfe's "awkward stage". I keep hoping that the globalists will back down without doing things the hard way, but they get to choose.