I would hope we would revolt. But I also fear that half of all the 70 million truly have no stomach for conflict — we’d just die a slow and painful death and watch the country go into decline rather than risk our lives, our fortunes, or our sacred honor.
Revolt,,,
Exactly How ?
Right a sternly Worded
Letter,begin a campaign of
Littering or make faces at
The T.V. set?
I think we got to along
Till we can “Go Galt!”
That’s me,
Alternatives?
Historically, the way that civil wars happen, we’re looking at about 9% of the men in that figure you mentioned in comment #42. That’s a very large number men, who could do complete damage.
There’s also been much talk about disarming the populace due to fears of attacks or some kind of uprising. It wouldn’t make any difference towards decreased damage. It would be more likely to the effect of prolonging the problem with violence ramping up much more.
I’ve read quite a bit about what has called “fourth generation warfare” and by other names. That general problem (civil war within the same country as homeland military forces) hasn’t been solved to this day.
Given enough increasing concern among the rebels (including increasing casualties, imprisonments, etc.), such conflict would be unwinnable for the side most desiring to keep the economy and infrastructure from collapsing. Also, foreign participation would only heat such conflict up much more.
It could be far uglier for everyone involved than most people would imagine at this point in time.
It would probably be over and done within a surprisingly short amount of time, by the way, in about the time that it would take someone to starve to death without contemporary conveniences like energy, communications, etc.