“I still hold a faint amount of hope, but not much.”
Me too. That hope is based entirely on the relatively peaceful dissolution of the Soviet Union, and the hope that we will be so fortunate.
This meme seems to be gaining purchase: please let the collapse/CW2/R2 be as peaceful as the demise of the USSR. The key, of course, is which side, people vs state, the military backs. This speech by Stewart Rhodes from Oathkeepers outlines the issues in high relief: