Cut off the head, and suddenly you're left with a bunch of dead limbs — Walmart, Amazon, Applebees, Target, Tesla, Boeing, Chevrolet, etc. — companies that, in the event of a war, would immediately cease to function cross-country are oftentimes dependent on one another, and would immediately throw a hundred million out of work, if not more.
And I haven't mentioned agribusiness here, or Big Pharma, or all the thousands of companies that make computer chips and innumerable widgets that none of us knows about but we're extremely dependent upon.
This isn't even considering water sources and power grids, two things that have the potential to wreck life as we know it and send whole regions into anarchy and the Stone Age. Where are the power plants? The transmission lines? What are the sources of power — dams, or coal, or solar, or nuclear?
Texas could probably pull it off. Independent grid and access to the sea.
Freedom or silk lined slavery.
Make your choice.
So, it is:
A. Inconvenient
B. It would be hard
C. Someone could get hurt
OK then, never mind. Continue on the road of, not to, serfdom.
If I were Charlie Kirk I would have called this guy out on the spot.
IMO he is simply stating precisely why it IS time to take action. We are living under a new form of tyranny. One we don’t get to vote for and can destroy us as individuals. A new tyranny with new tools that is global and acts in real-time. We have never seen this before.
I have no fear of a large military force invading the USA but we don’t seem to learn our lessons when it comes to small tactical battles as seen in our engagements in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan. We can’t maintain the political discipline to ‘win’. It has nothing to do with armies. Time and time again, just as in our Revolutionary War, ‘weaker forces’ with small arms can deliver an unstoppable force that politicians tire of and lose the will to continue. I’d argue this is especially true of the USA considering we can have a new POTUS every four years, carrying the risk of giving up everything and walking away.
Something has to give. Seeing bank accounts getting frozen, with leftist approval, would imply a breaking point is very close. All of these companies and institutions he refers to are actually extremely vulnerable should there be a civil war, they’d crumble in days. Our patience is the only thing keeping them alive.
I agree, until we have exhausted all peaceful options. Ben Franklin stated it best-—comparing preserving freedom to that of a Rattlesnake.
“She may therefore be esteemed an emblem of vigilance. She never begins an attack, nor, when once engaged, ever surrenders: She is therefore an emblem of magnanimity and true courage. As if anxious to prevent all pretensions of quarreling with her, the weapons with which nature has furnished her, she conceals in the roof of her mouth, so that, to those who are unacquainted with her, she appears to be a most defenseless animal; and even when those weapons are shown and extended for her defense, they appear weak and contemptible; but their wounds however small, are decisive and fatal. “
A violent armed civil war is not going to happen.
Instead, the USA is going to collapse onto itself. When you consider the USA population of 330 million people and 230 million of them are on welfare or social security, it will soon go bankrupt and cease to exist.
This is why I say that those millions of illegals flooding the USA are coming here just to die of starvation, along with another 100 million Americans going to the grave.
The globalist like Bill Gates and Fauci will be very pleased to see the US population cut in half.
If a person has the guts to pick up a gun, he should also have the guts to pull the purse strings, which is far more frightening to the scoundrels he has been sponsoring.
The We The People America is lost already, we just fail to realize it due to normalcy bias and other demonically fueled factors. The largest clue is how elections are now determined; they are managed off-shore and the globalist oligarchy determines the outcome wherever they choose to set it. We The People no longer handle our own votes, so the dead soul liars and cheats do their masters’ bidding ... like in Georgia and Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, and Michigan, and ... and well, every state that can be a tipping point. When did the end begin? 1973 ... the moral compass was discarded, for convenience.
Ask Vicky Weaver if "peaceful protests" will work - this time.
Ask a Branch Davidian.
Ask Ashely Babbit.
Ask any of the Jan 6th "peaceful" protestors who are STILL in jail on bullsh*t political charges.
How much more "peace" before we realize that the government will only respond in any meaningful way to FORCE.
Like Putin driving tanks into SE Ukraine. THAT is force that is getting sh*t done.
Amon Bundy's stand-off against the BLM was only successful because of the hundreds of ARMED people who showed up to support him.
So no, if anything... PEACEFUL means of redress are dead. If it were still viable, we'd not be where we are having this exact conversation.
“The revolution begins at home!”
Isn’t that something leftists used to say?”
If we’re to stop this oligarchic totalitarian juggernaut we have to adopt the tactics they used. Fortunately those tactics are simple to understand:
1. Work at your level: do not think you can influence anyone above your station or outside your geographic range. There will be no martyrs or heroes. Visionaries need not apply.
2. Argument is all but useless—what really works is guile, intimidation, blackmail and money.
We’re the the base of a huge pyramid, and the only way to topple a pyramid is to pry away, block by block, its foundation. It might get unpleasant.
Let’s see how the next elections go. If there is the massive fraud we saw in 2020 that keeps the Marxists in power, it might be time for a revolution. If the GOP sweeps Congress and we can purge or at least curtail the swamp dwelling RINOs, there is a chance we can save the country.
There are plenty of reasons to impeach dementia Joe, but that gives us Kamala as POTUS … maybe even worse. I have a feeling a GOP sweep of Congress and the prospect of serious investigations into the Biden crime family might cause old Joe to resign. The Democrats have to desperately get rid of Kamala before that happens. My best scenario for the Democrats would be Kamala gets appointed to the Supreme Court, but fails to get Senate confirmation and she then disappears. Tulsi Gabbard gets appointed VP and the dementia Joe resigns and goes to a memory care facility inDelaware making Tulsi POTUS. However, the Democrats are now run by Marxists who still have visions of creating a socialist Marxist state and abandoning the Constitution. Their party will get crushed in honest elections.
We should just meekly submit to the left’s “final solution” for us? In case you haven’t noticed, the left is going for all of the marbles this time.
It’s true that patriots cannot beat the military or even the police forces in a set-piece battle. However insurgencies are not fought that way. And, by the way, our military is particularly unsusessful against gurellia wars.
The interconnected nature of our society, industries, and services makes us more vulnerable, as you correctly point out.
I believe more and more freedom loving Americans are taking a bullet for believing in the America that they grew up in. The transformation of America under Obama was very effective. The herd is just moving on by, while the Democrat lions devour the carcass of people like Kyle Rittenhouse and thousands of others, A DEMOCRAT, who just wanted to stop Kenosha businesses from being burnt to the ground. He barely made it out with his life, and he is in iminent danger every day for the rest of his life.
The police and National guard, Just stood by and let it happen, hoping that paychecks would go out as usual.
[[ would result in mass starvation and eventually death. This isn’t the 1860s, when clothes could be homespun and farms were all family-owned. ]]
Wow, no nope no! He’s right, it’s not the 1860’s, it’s better- we have the internet that can connect us with conservative places of business if we have to come to that. And people are far more resilient than the author gives folks credit for. Just because we’ve become accustomed to comfort doesn’t mean that if everything goes south, that we’ll all keel over and give up the ghost. Splitting fro the vile left wouldn’t mean masses dying of confusion and no sense of survival at all.
Conservatives of all stripes were also instrumentsl,instruments, building this nation, and will,be again if we have to go in another direction by splitting up from thise who hate us. It’s not like conservatives sat by while liberals built America way back when, nor is it that way now. Necessity is the mother of I’vention, and if it’s necessary, we Will learn to adapt to a new changing direction in a effort to get out fro under the thumb of those who hate us and trample our rights.
I don’t get where e the author is coming from when he suggests everything shuts down if a split should happen. He seems to,think everyone Wil. Curl,into a ball and give up. Sorry, it never happened before, an wont happen again Either.
Sorry americanthinker this article is a swing and a miss.
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Then tell the left to stop provoking by demanding submission to their beliefs.
We should just meekly submit to the left’s “final solution” for us? In case you haven’t noticed, the left is going for all of the marbles this time.
It’s true that patriots cannot beat the military or even the police forces in a set-piece battle. However insurgencies are not fought that way. And, by the way, our military is particularly unsusessful against gurellia wars.
We should just meekly submit to the left’s “final solution” for us? In case you haven’t noticed, the left is going for all of the marbles this time.
It’s true that patriots cannot beat the military or even the police forces in a set-piece battle. However insurgencies are not fought that way. And, by the way, our military is particularly unsusessful against gurellia wars.
These states are NOT UNITED. Period.
The Leftist-controlled states have almost nothing in common with the patriotic Red States. The Left would put patriots in concentration camps without the slightest remorse.
The country is now a zero sum game. The Left wins or the patriots win. There is no middle ground anymore.