[arthurus]

2. The incoming socialist government immediately started a radical social reform program — economic reform, police reform, a purge of the military, and legal reform, all with great benefits to "their side" and nothing but pain for the rest. 3. The potential for legal recourse was short-circuited 4. The influence of foreign states in the lead-up to the election. Nobody would argue that Stalin's USSR wasn't massively funding the socialist left and the anarchists in 1936. Where did Stalin's quote about "who counts the votes" come from? 5. The influence of massive propaganda campaigns. CNN, Facebook, or Google, anybody? 6. The election occurred during a period of massive social change: the Great Depression for Spain and a pandemic in the U.S. 7. A rejection of religion. Anti-Catholic sentiment was at a fever pitch. 8. Both sides truly hated each other. 9. An acceptance and normalization of violence and repression as a political weapon. 10. Lots of guns. And people who knew how to use them. I certainly hope a fratricidal civil war really is not just a spark away in America. I genuinely like Americans. And like the rest of the free world, I sleep under the blanket of U.S. freedoms.

The military is being aggressively purged to a much greater extent than other Democrats have done. China is financing the left to some extent through proxies.

[Wallace T.]

The Left learned a lesson in Spain in the 1930s and Chile in the 1970s: failing to purge the armed forces of patriots may lead to military countermeasures. Keep in mind that the top echelons of the U.S. military have always been political, and many of them were members of Establishment clubs like the Council on Foreign Relations. As that Establishment has moved steadily leftward, the generals and admirals have followed suit. I doubt someone like Norman Schwarzkopf, much less Curtis LeMay, would rise above lieutenant colonel at best.