Wouldn’t it be easier, more efficient, and less collateral damage for us to just shoot the media after the first shot?
In the middle of the country maybe. But I don’t think there’s any way to save the coasts, even if the media was gone. This is an extremely divided country, with the coasts wanting to go the way of Hitler, and the mid-section generally still wanting to be America. A nation divided against itself cannot stand. It just can’t. There’s no way to hold this union together.
If the mid-section tried an outright secession it would be civil war, with all the US Defense Department on the side of Hitler. It would be a much smoother transition if we let the criminals within Hitler’s ranks kill off their own and be the sole areas where martial law and hollow-tip bullets are needed when the full coup hits (or where anybody could use those bullets without being suicidal).
We know their game plan; it’s the same in every coup. We just need to be one step ahead of them. People and businesses need to flock to the mid-section. Create our own economy before they can force a crisis on us.