“they” have taken out about 150 million of their own citizens in the last century. I don’t look at this as a hypothetical situation, if you know what I mean about communists and socialists.
“they” have taken out about 150 million of their own citizens....
Yes you are correct. It does reinforce my point, however, that when the deck is stacked against you, even if you choose to fight, you will likely lose.
View it this way, out of control government is a beast that needs to feed in order to stay alive. It feeds itself with excessive taxes on the populace that supports it. It is so large that an individual or small group of people cannot defeat it. Any resistance to it will be quelled and the beast will grow stronger. It demonstrates to those who are left that it is, well, unbeatable.
The efforts that are directed toward defeating the beast will be absorbed by it and help to feed it. Your time and effort that you feel are working to bring down the beast are instead making it stronger and you weaker. It uses up your time and energy.
You stated in an earlier post
In the eyes of God, I am convinced that the totalitrian state is evil and that permitting it to destroy us is the ultimate cowardice.
I agree with some of the statement but have a different take on your conclusion. "permitting it to destroy us..." implies that we also have the ability to 'not permit'. How shall we 'not permit?' History is full of martyrs and they are very often used by the beast itself in order to coerce us into submitting to their will. The denial of our skills, talents and efforts which permit the beast to survive is more effective, in my opinion, than any direct confrontation that I can imagine.