I concede your point but still think you are failing to credit the communists with the ability they have shown numerous times.
yes 99.99% of our military would never think of shooting an innocent. yes the same people would never think to use their force upon American civilians.
It won’t come about overnight, it will be small steps accompanied with massive propaganda. For example the recent exercise in Iowa to search house to house for a ‘weapons dealer’. Those troops have no idea what they are really doing and are just following orders.
People with evil intent will seek out the more gullible, power hungry or whatever and will create their version of the SS or Gestapo. Next a specific class of people will be selected for persecution. This will help to unify the compliant and divide those who dissent. My guess is that it will be Christians or people who refused to accept the gay lifestyle. That’s how Stalin, Pol Pot, Hitler, Chavez (he’s trying), Castro did it. Of course some were more efficient at killing.
I would never forget the power of the commies but this is different in my view. So far we have the ability to stop what we see is occuring the queston is will we. I have faith that we will. You scenario is entirely plausable too and at some point it will be too much, I hope.