There’s an emerging blue-state nightmare: Inspired by President Donald Trump’s call to round up immigrants who are in the country illegally, red-state governors might start sending their National Guard troops into blue states without those leaders’ permission.
I’m fine with preparations. If it comes to war then we must try to win. But we don’t need to make that outcome more likely. I think the right has a huge advantage in war because of their inherent militarism and because legally Trump is the commander in chief and the military is very likely to side with him. It’s not to our advantage to fight them militarily.
But I think there are still other paths available to us. You are wrong that nonviolent solutions are not useful. They can and have been used successfully in situations far more dire than the situation in the US today. There is a widespread lack of knowledge about the effectiveness of civil resistance in our culture today and we need to educate ourselves about these tactics that have worked to bring down dictatorships in the past.
Their militarism is largely rhetoric and would at worst be an annoyance. As for the military they pull folks from all over the country many pf said peoples would have an incentive to desert and join up with said home region. Thats not even getting into the fact that the military would all of a sudden have a bunch of their logistics rat fucked and their supply depots and suppliers in question. To put it lightly at best the military would end up paralyzed at least for a bit in the event of a civil war, at worst total collapse of capabilities.
As for your point of non violence, I simply disagree on a baseline. Trump has broken the social contract him and any dumb enough to fight for him simply deserve death. This is a matter of principles to me, I consider the wrongdoing worthy of the death penalty and think it needs to be followed through. Combine that with the fact im a Californian nationalist and ya get a rather volatile mix.
I’m fine with preparations. If it comes to war then we must try to win. But we don’t need to make that outcome more likely. I think the right has a huge advantage in war because of their inherent militarism and because legally Trump is the commander in chief and the military is very likely to side with him. It’s not to our advantage to fight them militarily.
But I think there are still other paths available to us. You are wrong that nonviolent solutions are not useful. They can and have been used successfully in situations far more dire than the situation in the US today. There is a widespread lack of knowledge about the effectiveness of civil resistance in our culture today and we need to educate ourselves about these tactics that have worked to bring down dictatorships in the past.
I highly recommend this book for a deeper dive on this topic: https://commonslibrary.org/civil-resistance-what-everyone-needs-to-know/
Their militarism is largely rhetoric and would at worst be an annoyance. As for the military they pull folks from all over the country many pf said peoples would have an incentive to desert and join up with said home region. Thats not even getting into the fact that the military would all of a sudden have a bunch of their logistics rat fucked and their supply depots and suppliers in question. To put it lightly at best the military would end up paralyzed at least for a bit in the event of a civil war, at worst total collapse of capabilities.
As for your point of non violence, I simply disagree on a baseline. Trump has broken the social contract him and any dumb enough to fight for him simply deserve death. This is a matter of principles to me, I consider the wrongdoing worthy of the death penalty and think it needs to be followed through. Combine that with the fact im a Californian nationalist and ya get a rather volatile mix.