I lived under martial law in 1968 in Milwaukee. There is a difference between cowardice and informed caution. When you need to go through checkpoints to go grocery shopping in small groups of only women and young children and when you watch a nervous 19-year-old on the back of a truck with a machine gun circle your block every 15 minutes, you can better speak in rousing tones of your disgust.
Yes, we already have riots of Holder’s people and their unionista drill sergeants. Look at your neighbors who are waking up. How will each of them react to escalation of those tactics, to loud condemnations of Americans in the international press and to the presence of blue helmets in American cities under “responsibility to protect”?
This is only the false war. It is a covert civil war. The big guns have not yet been brought to bear. If we force them to bring down the boot overtly, but prematurely, we will lose. People may be waking up, a bit, but they will back down in the face of force and they will NOT blame the left. They will blame the bearers of the bad news that they will believe started it all.
Go in guns blazing from all sides, to use your metaphor, and once the initial barrage is over, they will calmly regroup and pick us off, one by one, an ally at a time, until we are too discredited to gather ever that paltry 25%. I disagree that we have 60% support. I speak with committed, long term conservatives daily and they mostly want to believe that zerO is simply incompetent and they will vote on that issue. Show me one country that has successfully countered a stealth communist coup quickly and permanently without it escalating into a long, drawn-out and nasty civil war. Those civil wars are not accidents, they are premeditated outcomes desired by the left because, when they hold the reins of power, they can put down insurrections of all sorts quickly, elatively quietly and without much opposition, under the guise of “keeping order”. Outside of power, they can fan the flames of resentment of loss and come back bigger and stronger.
As to the media losing its grip: that is delusional. People will cherry-pick what to believe to what degree, but the absolute power of consensus has been inculcated along with the definition of *good*. Those still “searching for the truth” will eventually decide to accept that *truth* which provides them with the most peace, no matter how superficial. How else did entire populations in Eastern Europe and Latin America live for decades under oppression?
When speaking truth to power, one must have some assurance of the morality of that power. So, the left could do so to the right without repercussion, as Ghandi could use civil disobedience against the British. The present power is immoral and we will not get away with it if we are foolish.
But....I believe we are already seeing “disappearances” and untimely “accidents”. Look at the Arkanicide surrounding the Clintons. Look at the unsolved murders among those with knowledge about Obama’s natural born citizenship. And....They won't go after prominent conservatives directly. A cousin or two will “disappear” as has recently happened with Michele Malkin’s cousin. I'd bet my entire 401K that every conservative pundit took notice of that “disappearance”.