We have no capability for civil war: no organization, no coordination. No targets. Who do you shoot at? When? Where?
This is frustration, which engenders anger. Which might produce lynch mobs, but that's the level it is at. And, no matter how angry someone can get, it takes a turn to hatred to motivate murder. Good people are not well-disposed to murder.
I think the remediation for frustration is to start speaking out---in public, not in the silent obscurity of the internet. Start creating public disturbance, or civil disobedience. One day a week, in the public square, have an open "Nonconspiracy" session where thoughts and recommendations for What To Do are openly discussed. We still have freedom of speech, so why aren't we using that to its full extent? Ah, it takes courage, effort, and dedication. Easier to grouse on the internet.
Gandhi understood this long ago: peacefully clog the system, and the system grinds to a halt. There aren't enough cells in all the jails or prisons if the population at large is arrested.
No, he had an army of Indian peasants, who took up spinning their own cotton instead of purchasing it from British weavers. Mass action at its finest. (Now, I will admit that Gandhi has been glorified, but not because he sought to kill anyone.)
Keyboard soldiering is nice. It's all I can afford to do. But it is still a bit like putting on a uniform and striking a pose for the mirror. At some point, it has to get real, with real speaking, real venues, and real people...and getting real attention from the Powers that Be.
They taught us all about Gandhi and his revolution in elementary public school. It has been a long time since I saw the award winning movie. But, I sort of forgot about him. lol.
The thoughts of a Civil war will always be on the table in many parts of the USA.
And if these activist judges, socialists, commies and radicals keep up with their anti-American BS, it may be getting served sooner than later.
And there will be nothing civil about it....
We have no capability for civil war: no organization, no coordination. No targets. Who do you shoot at? When? Where?
This is frustration, which engenders anger. Which might produce lynch mobs, but that's the level it is at. And, no matter how angry someone can get, it takes a turn to hatred to motivate murder. Good people are not well-disposed to murder.
I think the remediation for frustration is to start speaking out---in public, not in the silent obscurity of the internet. Start creating public disturbance, or civil disobedience. One day a week, in the public square, have an open "Nonconspiracy" session where thoughts and recommendations for What To Do are openly discussed. We still have freedom of speech, so why aren't we using that to its full extent? Ah, it takes courage, effort, and dedication. Easier to grouse on the internet.
Gandhi understood this long ago: peacefully clog the system, and the system grinds to a halt. There aren't enough cells in all the jails or prisons if the population at large is arrested.
Gahndi didn't have an Army of Keyboard Warriors. So...
No, he had an army of Indian peasants, who took up spinning their own cotton instead of purchasing it from British weavers. Mass action at its finest. (Now, I will admit that Gandhi has been glorified, but not because he sought to kill anyone.)
Keyboard soldiering is nice. It's all I can afford to do. But it is still a bit like putting on a uniform and striking a pose for the mirror. At some point, it has to get real, with real speaking, real venues, and real people...and getting real attention from the Powers that Be.
They taught us all about Gandhi and his revolution in elementary public school. It has been a long time since I saw the award winning movie. But, I sort of forgot about him. lol.
One of the first steps in civil disobedience is to start speaking openly and publicly. Civil disobedience leads to...???
In the case of Gandhi, it led to the conclusion of the British Raj.
living by a pond in Massachusetts?
Wherever the defense fund can buy a house!!!
KEK...That's a good one.
Perhaps you missed the "nothing civil about it" part.
And the target's pretty much will speak for themselves.
And keep in mind that when you are praying, they are preying....
And what I am saying is still true: no capability for war, just lynch mobs.
The US is very vast and a large land so I have to agree that isolated communities may feel in time they may want to splinter.
people living in isolation tend to do that sometimes. hell look at North Sentinel Island. Those folks I would say have splintered.