I know. I didn't even say that I like what happened, or that it was a good idea.

What it will become, however, will be a permanent symbol that the establishment doesn't have the power that people think it does. They are reacting violently, not to real damage, but to humiliation. The undermining of their legitimacy is what hurt them. That is also why they will respond with violence. But when they do, and some normie gets beaten to a pulp in the street by a 'neighborhood watch patrol' to monitor the latest red-lined COVID lockdown, the angry neighbors and community will remember that some retards took over the capitol building out of nothing but sheer will. No backing, no organization, and no plan.

Imagine what would happen to a group of people who were genuinely resisting dire tyranny, but had a plan, had support, and had the will to fight because they knew they were fighting people that were using the illusion of power.

That's the thing that I have to harp on, because I'm one of the few people who've experienced it from the side with the power: power is fundamentally illusory.

Authoritarians kill to maintain that illusion... because they have to. Once it's gone, and your enemy neither fears you, nor respects you, you become the definition of Sun Tsu's "worst general": the general who's enemy's fight him forever, who never wins the war no matter how many battles he fights, and who's enemies will never acquiesce to his power. Once the illusion is shattered, like a magic trick you know the secret to, it can't be regained.