Communist Revolution Has Begun

[Hanarchy Montanarchy]

Negative Hanarchy.

I've been clear. Citizens civil rights are being damaged by local authorities cooperating with Commies that are damaging property and persons.

And you guys continue to zip right past the hundreds of people murdered and beaten in the last 60 days

Au contraire.

I am very alarmed by attacks on people and the destruction of property. Also, I do not have a better solution than federal intervention if municipal authorities are stepping down.

Still, federal intervention is an equally alarming development - unless you are looking forward to the second Civil War. Then it is a badass development.

[Martin Hash]

This is a thread about the Communist uprising and the Communists came. Write it and they will come.

[Martin Hash]

This time they’re going to do Communism right.

[The Conservative]

This time they’re going to do Communism right.

My Great Grandmother came from a communist country, she said a long time ago to my mother when my mother joked about NK doing that exact same thing...

She said that "Communism was done right, it just does not work."

[Hanarchy Montanarchy]

It is a shame how many people have sacrificed their critical faculties in order to join a personality cult.

If one were being uncharitable, one might accuse them of being Stalinist.

[Xenophon]

Negative Hanarchy.

I've been clear. Citizens civil rights are being damaged by local authorities cooperating with Commies that are damaging property and persons.

And you guys continue to zip right past the hundreds of people murdered and beaten in the last 60 days

Au contraire.

I am very alarmed by attacks on people and the destruction of property. Also, I do not have a better solution than federal intervention if municipal authorities are stepping down.

Still, federal intervention is an equally alarming development - unless you are looking forward to the second Civil War. Then it is a badass development.

There will be no second Civil War, if you're thinking about a conventional war. The first one was able to be waged by each side because people still saw their own State as being their Country and were patriots for their own state, and there was a Militia system in place that trained all able bodied men for war. We have neither of those things now.

If a "civil war" happens in America, it will be less like the War Between the States and more like the Rwandan Genocide. Roving packs of marauders with improvised weapons until the Federal Government declares war on the ensuing chaos. We are not close to that point, as everyone still sees the Federal Government has having legitimate authority, if not in mind then at least in action. Anyone who wants a shooting war is having some masturbatory fantasy about conventional warfighting a la 1860.

Also, I'm glad you pinpointed the actual issue of State and Municipal authorities refusing to do their duty. That is the real issue causing the Federal government to act.

This is a seizure of power by the federal government, overriding the authority of the states. Simple as that.

That happened at Appomattox Courthouse, son. That's been settled for nigh 200 years. It's interesting that now that some of the Yankees are feeling the fire behind what Federal Supremacy means in reality, they retreat behind the "State's Rights" banner, as though they can put the Genie back in the bottle.

Suck it up, hoss. The door swings both ways. In the same way that the supporters of BLM and violent anarchists cheer when police officers or wrongthinkers are victimized, I will not bat an eye when they get the hard end of the truncheon. At the end of the day, lofty ideals are only as useful as they are practical. I will not be the principled centrist if it's my family on the chopping block.

[The Conservative]

It is a shame how many people have sacrificed their critical faculties in order to join a personality cult.

If one were being uncharitable, one might accuse them of being Stalinist.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Yeah.... hard reversal from the vaunted ideals, as soon as they cease to serve. It’s gonna be the best police state ever.

Also I find it hilarious that the biggest fans of small government are burning their pocket constitutions over state/local governments NOT acting.

[Hanarchy Montanarchy]

If a "civil war" happens in America, it will be less like the War Between the States and more like the Rwandan Genocide. Roving packs of marauders with improvised weapons until the Federal Government declares war on the ensuing chaos. We are not close to that point, as everyone still sees the Federal Government has having legitimate authority, if not in mind then at least in action. Anyone who wants a shooting war is having some masturbatory fantasy about conventional warfighting a la 1860.

I think we are pretty much on the same page here.

[Xenophon]

Yeah.... hard reversal from the vaunted ideals, as soon as they cease to serve. It’s gonna be the best police state ever.

What I meant was that when you have roving packs of gangs who are destroying businesses and literally murdering children, while the state and local authorities do nothing to protect you, walking around like, "OH NO GUIZ POWEECE STATE" because the Federal government has to step in to restore order is disingenuous and shows an inability to engage with reality. George Washington himself would have had the standing army itself out on the streets, hanging these people from lampposts. See: The Whiskey Rebellion.

Not that you'll respond to anything I've said, Coward. No, you'll go silent or reply to this post with snark like you have to all the other ones calling out your bullcrap.