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"That was, of course, also the attitude of the Communists ruling the USSR in 1990."

Yea sure, Archy.
But there was an awful lot of misery between 1919 & 1990, too.
Even so, I can appreciate your point.

"If it comes to that here, they can have a choice: go out quietly, like Gorbachav and the Communists replaced by Yeltsen, then Putin in turn, or go out like Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu of Roumania in December 1989."

Yes, an excellent attitude.
I pray to God I live long enough to see such a scenario come to fruition.

"Kingdoms fall."

No argument there; &, who could argue this one's had "a fall" coming for some time, too.
Even if such a fall were only to purge the past 150 years or so of misguidance responsible for taking the nation so far from the framer's original intent.

"One of the contingencies we really haven't planned well for is the possibility that we'll attract numbers WAY out of proportion to what we've expected: What happens if instead of 20,000, we get 200,000, or a half-million?"

IF your organization were to attract a half mil numer; or, for that matter 20 times that?
I'd bet anything they'd be the kind of people one could expect order, cooperation & a spirit not seen on this continent for a very, long time.
Your "problems" would be the kind one might find extremely satisfying, I dare say.

"That may be bluesky,..."

Maybe not.
There'll be a lot of people watching y'all like hawks, &, I'll be one of 'em.
The possibility of this dream becoming a reality is exciting enough, but, if it were to become a smashing success?
It'd provide this citizen a golden opportunity to actually *see* which of my friends & neighbors are genuinely serious about the direction this nation's going, as opposed to what they've said.

Maybe even a chance to settle a few other things once & for all, too.

...like whose side God's really on.

"That was, of course, also the attitude of the Communists ruling the USSR in 1990."
Yea sure, Archy.
But there was an awful lot of misery between 1919 & 1990, too.
Even so, I can appreciate your point.

Worse, the Communists exported their misery to a number of locales that really wanted no part of a fight, just to be left alone. For their trouble they wore the yoke of Communist slavery and chains. For YEARS.

But not in Russia's neighboring Finland. When Finland's Communists tried to pull off their own coup there in 1918, it led to a 4-month Civil War, that left many of Finland's Reds dead, others jailed, and the rest running elsewhere for asylum. Only now, 80 years later, have the Communists and Communist appeasers achieved partyicular respectability and positions of power again. If it comes down to it, I expect the Finns will sort their problem out again without excessive difficulty. And there are lessons from them for Americans as well, Porcupines in particular.

-archy-/-