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Since the “precipice” is whatever it is (I don’t profess to know, anymore than I know what the plan is or might be), my question is why we should have confidence that whoever is in “control” is going to be able to stop this from erupting into a hot, shooting civil war? Because we should trust the plan?
People on all sides of the political spectrum are tired. Those on the right have spent the last 12 years (8 years of zippy, then 4 years under Trump) being berated, attacked, and alinsky-ed out the Gazoo. The left has been given a free pass to demonize, engage and destroy without consequence, which has either emboldened them, or simply give them the wherewithal to ramp up. World War 1 started with a the assassination of archduke Ferdinand of Austria. That event started a war that affected millions, killed countless people from around the world, and yet, we didn’t learn from it.
The risk in a strategy to take the population to the brink is that when you get to the point of hairpin reaction, one small event (see reaction to George Floyd’s death, even if a lot of it was contrived) can overwhelm the ability to stop it, and once the genie is out of the bottle, there is no going back.
Everyday, we get closer to the civil war we are in already going hot.
The problem is that we're tired, not at the precipice. Mean words and digital Red tape doesn't make the precipice for many. They'll constantly just make a compromise. "I don't need Facebook, it's just so I can go indoors and feed my family," we still got a pseudo living situation that can overtly ignore what's coming. The very fact we are all here speaking freely is poignant enough.
The problem is, and it's a hard pill to swallow, is we are awake, so everything for us is agony to watch. But for the common person, they can "still get moving" and for them they were convinced that's enough. But over time it's rattling a few of their cages. They've been told it's not that bad and they want to believe it and have the means to convince themselves of it. Once those venues disappear, though, if where they start waking up.
Slowly but surely, the blankets of comfort are being ripped off them, eventually they're as cold and hard as we are.
If the military intends to act, and waits too long, they will end up fighting against the very people they are supposed to defend. The situation and environment in this country today is extremely volatile and dangerous. People are more than tired, and we are starting to see signs of people beginning to reach desperation. If this keeps on, it will not end well.
And if they act now it is currently no different, just more lefties that are likely to not awake now than later.
It happens now, it will not end well either. On election night I know about 15 members of my family who would be willing to kill Trump supporters, that number is about 10 now.
It's anecdotal, sure, but what makes you think the other side wouldn't be so well off now compared to later? Why would there be less casualty now than waiting?
The difference is, whose better armed? If I were the military, I’d rather have to act against a bunch of folks with garbage can lid shields, than high powered rifles. That’s not to say some on the left won’t/don’t have arms, but if the left is to be believed, Trump supporters are crazed killers with more guns than anything else.