“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”
Learn from their mistakes. Hold them accountable.
As our founding fathers(who'd be stacking bodies if they were alive today) attest, one must be prepared to kill to ensure freedom. They waged assymetric war against their governmental oppressors, the worlds greatest super power, and killed so many, over a 3% tax. 3%.
Our Heritage is Revolution, boys.
Any type of conflict, whether civil or revolutionary, would be met with nearly immediate intervention by outside powers. China would do its damnedest to take the western parts, especially the coastal states. Russia would side with the South and maybe some mix of SA countries. Russia would probably take Alaska. England (EU) would abandon tacit control of what's left over and maybe sell off certain parts to others like ME. If we balkanize, this becomes the next ME warzone where proxy wars are fought. The other option is Russia begins instigating Southern Separatist movements and the South becomes the new Syria, where EU (China behind the scenes as well, along with certain ME factions, which England is still largely behind) instigates a North American Union.
Either scenario leads to a swift but briefly violent climax of a constitutional convention where the Military holds tribunals, purges what's not working and certain forces retract and take a break for a few decades and then give it another go, picking up from where they left off. Nothing much changes, no real progress is made beyond a momentary pause and we fix much less than we could have if we take the other direction:
This other direction is we sit here and be patient while the retards practically hang themselves. /ourguys/ are letting things play out and they seem to be hoping for the path of least resistance. Apparently, this path has the least civilian casualties, 4%-6%. Your accelerationist plans would net a great deal more. Maybe I'm not the best to guesstimate, but I'd be surprised if it stayed under 10%.
So, what you're really arguing for is more civilians dying while we trade longer term growing pains away for swift, high civilian casualties. Think this through.
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