I used to wonder about this, but seriously think about it.
Imagine the government just out of the blue came up with 2 million troops to take over America.
That amounts to 40,000 PER STATE.
Heck, it would probably take at least 50,000 to just handle south central LA.
It’s not doable. Not without mass casualties. And even with mass casualties, the government would lose.
They WANT mass casualties.
Helps their goals in a number of ways.
They have also conditioned the populace in a list of ways to be exceedingly passive even in the face of tyranny and horrifically bloody gore.
They may even have chemical and other artificial means to enforce passivity in various sizable locales.
Add in their use of massive gang crime waves coordinated by their folks . . . massive illegal alien help . . . massive help from Mexicans and Chinese just south of the border and flooding in from container ships off the West coast . . .
. . . things are not as tidy and safe as many ASSUME.
No? You do not understand, do you?
It is eminently do-able.
All it takes is someone to close the valves, shut down the grid, and stop the food shipments, and cold, hungry, and thirsty people will do what they must (and are told) with few exceptions after one or two weeks.
Images of the survivors, should they even get out will be used to emphasize the emergency in the State controled media.
It can be made to look like anything from a hacker attack to a series of terrorist bombings, or done in concert with a natural disaster.
Government, of course, will be there to help 'solve' the crisis they created, and it will be unfortunate that so many lost their lives, but the State edited media will tell us to look at how many were saved!
Troops will only have to deal with the holdouts, who will be branded readily as criminals and extremists, not the entire population, and no one will be there to witness the artillery or air strikes...
Not do-able? For those who are determined and do not care about the Constitution, a piece of cake.