Pennsylvania, Georgia, North Carolina all in play still.
This whole thing has been a shitshow, never seen anything like it before.
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Au contraire, mon ami.
All power is illusory. All of it. All you are doing is convincing someone to do your will. Anyone who refuses. Truly refuses. The unbearably obstinate, are incapable of being coerced. At best, you shoot them, but then you don't get what you want anyways.
I say this having occupied a foreign country. I say this having pointed a rifle at a man to get him to comply with a simple order that did not really have too much significance to either of us. Only to have him comply in the most malicious sense possible.
Every security force is outnumbered. Every security force is outgunned. That is simply fact. All security is theater. All authority is theater. All power is illusory. All promises of protection are lies.
You do not have to comply. Even if you do, you can still play games. The overwhelming and disproportionate response of security forces is always to instill enough fear to prevent anyone from realizing that. Fear is the only real weapon any force has, and only you can determine it's effect.
Yes, there are consequences to a refusal to comply. That's why we need a parallel system to be built now, not later. We're obviously never going back to that system again, and they wouldn't want us if we did.
“There is no governor anywhere; you are all absolutely free. There is no restraint that cannot be escaped. We are all absolutely free. If everybody could go into dhyana at will, nobody could be controlled — by fear of prison, by fear of whips or electroshock, by fear of death, even. All existing society is based on keeping those fears alive, to control the masses. Ten people who know would be more dangerous than a million armed anarchists.” - Robert Anton Wilson
Correct.
And when you're the one trying to impose force on someone, it becomes very clear. Fear and Respect are the only two things that keep you alive.
Where I differ from many is that Respect is far better than fear, but it's also far more difficult and limits your options to a far greater degree. Respect is the natural libertarian form of leadership. Fear is the natural authoritarian one.