You can't put a revolution back in the box.
A revolution is psychologically transformative. Once revolution starts, it introduces a new model of government public interactions. People start asking themselves, "If they can shoot us, why can't we just shoot them back? If they round up us, why can't we just round up them? If they pick us off one by one in our homes, why can't we pick them off one by one in their homes?"
It's a stupid game they're playing. Their understanding of the world is tainted by their own limited experiences and expectations that are derived almost entirely from fictional stories.
Didn't someone leak the employment details of the Capitol police and probably all the federal employees? Okay, from just a strategy perspective, everyone knows where these people live, where as the Feds rely entirely on collecting information from the internet and phone services, which are basically useless for organizing a revolution. Who has the advantage strategically? Who should be afraid of who in this situation?
I think the people in the US government should take a step back, clear their minds, and take a fresh look at the situation. The USA needs a sweeping corruption purge, a purge of foreign agents, and there are no two ways about it if the beast of revolution isn't to be awakened, which will surely claim the lives of all the billionaires, all the media heads, most of the Federal employees and their families, and USA's position in the world geopolitically, financially, economically, and, most importantly, technologically.
All this trouble for a couple of Israelis that snuck into a Western Congress and pretend like they're supposed to be there. What exactly is the danger in packing them in a crate and sending them back to Israel? Are we that afraid of them calling us Anti-semites on tv? Does anyone even watch tv anymore? If it's just blackmail, what's the big deal? Do we really not know how to deal with blackmailers in the USA?
I delayed responding to this comment because it deserved more than I could type from my phone, which is what I was using last night.
You can't put a revolution back in the box.
Revolution? Do you mean a shooting war or the slightly-elevated anti-government sentiment that possibly exists in a number of segments of the country right now? Those already disaffected and fed up?
A revolution is psychologically transformative. Once revolution starts, it introduces a new model of government public interactions. People start asking themselves, "If they can shoot us, why can't we just shoot them back? If they round up us, why can't we just round up them? If they pick us off one by one in our homes, why can't we pick them off one by one in their homes?"
I'm not one to speak for the rest of the country as I have no insight into what anyone else is thinking. I suspect that's also the case here. Maybe people are asking themselves those questions. Maybe they're not. I have no way of knowing. As I said just before, I've seen some evidence of a few pockets of resistance but I doubt the average Normie is ready to raise the black flag and slit a few throats, as the saying goes.
The USA needs a sweeping corruption purge, a purge of foreign agents, and there are no two ways about it if the beast of revolution isn't to be awakened, which will surely claim the lives of all the billionaires, all the media heads, most of the Federal employees and their families, and USA's position in the world geopolitically, financially, economically, and, most importantly, technologically.
There are very few instances where I will say that something will not happen, but that will not happen. You're talking more like a communist than an American. And that's where you lose me, and likely many other potential allies.
I think I understand your perspective on the issue, but I also think your conclusions are limited by a few preconceptions about the situation and the ways to address it.
What I mean is that sometimes problems seem unsolvable when your solutions are artificially constrained by familiarity, even if it's just familiarity with media fiction.
The idea that a revolution has to take the form of guerrila fighters or mobs as in the era of the American and French Revolutions, for instance.
The weaponry and other relevant factors like the ability to travel or exchange information quickly have significantly changed. The American and French Revolutions occurred in regional bubbles, where as the USA has globalized to an extent that there is virtually no obstacles to importing weaponry, operatives. The communication system and talentless intelligence agencies, talentless because they cannot gain support from the high IQ people necessary, mean that the entire theater of a revolution could be conducted abroad.
In addition, an unhinged economy means that money can be fabricated using the financial scams built into our economy to fund any operations. In an environment where moral sentiment is so low and the USA having no mechanisms to keep politicians in the country and accountable that any official, any politician, would sell out their peers for a mansion somewhere and a harem.
As I said just before, I've seen some evidence of a few pockets of resistance but I doubt the average Normie is ready to raise the black flag and slit a few throats, as the saying goes.
This is something I often see come up when discussing revolutions and their likelihood, but it really doesn't apply since it doesn't take many people to wage a successful revolution, especially in a situation where the state employees themselves are on one side or another solely for a very small pay check. If a revolution pays $2 more per hour, considering a reformed country is in the employee's best interests, what are the chance of defection, perhaps defection where they stay in place to disrupt the state's operations? They seem pretty high to me.
The USA does not have ideological commitment by its soldiers, by it's employees, by the general public, or by the high IQ people that are necessary for this state to keep moving forward. Whether it's the Left or the Right, their grievances are mostly the same and so incredibly severe that many lose their composure just thinking about it.
They stole our future and I for one am not going to bow to such a weak enemy. And why would I? These cronies and foreign agents are on their way out one way or another. If the USA doesn't just collapse first it will have a revolution, and if it doesn't have a revolution it will be invaded or just waves of assassins, organized by other superpowers, will flood through the open borders to remove whoever is in charge of this catastrophy.
I might have lost you with my discussion about this. I don't see the situation in terms of Left or Right, Communism or Capitalism. I have a much more primitive, or maybe clear, perspective that there are good guys and there are bad guys, and the bad guys have to die.
Here's how I look at it in as few sentences as possible.
The United States of America as existed in its original form and as we're taught about in school is dead. (If it ever really existed at all.) While less than 3% of the population actively participated in the rebellion against the English, the world (as you pointed out) was different then. China, Russia, et. al would LOVE to see another civil war in this country. We'd be ripe for takeover. The only way this works out well (IMHO) is for a peaceful divorce into two or three smaller nations. Anything else results in mass casualties and destruction.
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