The strategy hinges on the Jacobins becoming so hated that the sans-culottes, the silent majority you speak of, stop giving a damn what happens to the Jacobins.
It's going to happen again; the Jacobins will be put to the blade; I'm just not sure when, and more importantly, how long the Populist Right is going to be made to suffer before then.
I think the historical comparisons run aground when you consider how many guns there are in America. This is the best armed citizenry in the history of the world. I'm not saying they can't be made to suffer, but I do wonder what that would even look like. I know Dems are going to push new gun control laws, but look how that shit played out in New Jersey - they banned high capacity magazines, and precisely zero people turned theirs in to police. If police wind up going door to door attempting to physically confiscate firearms from Americans, you will see an uprising overnight.
Less than 40% of people in New Zealand turned in their banned firearms after the Christchurch shootings.
But, I will argue over and over again, that the spirit of the fight just isn't in the people right now. It should be -- stopping tyranny before it can sprout is obviously the best option -- but revolutions are always reactionary, if they're organic.
And that's why you'll never see a mass gun confiscation; the manpower isn't there, and it will cause a bloody reaction.
What will happen is they'll institute bans on modern arms, they'll cripple the entire gun industry with regulation (killing a multi-billion dollar industry and putting even more thousands of people out of work), they'll regulate magazine capacity, and they'll institute mandatory buy-back programs to be rewarded with a rapidly-inflating currency that won't even cover the cost of many of the arms that would potentially be turned in.
A few choice targets will be made examples of, and they'll have myriad charges dropped on them to scare the rest of the populace into compliance.
We can only hope -- as miserable a solution as that is -- that the increased demand for arms among even people who are traditionally anti-gun will provide too much push back for the Dems to comfortably introduce gun control measures.
People might not have turned them in, but future acquisitions are fucked as a result, so they just have to wait it out and eventually future generations are defanged.
I personally think it's more that most conservatives see that the marxist ideology eventually destroys itself. Today's woke will be cancelled by tomorrow's woke.
The issue now is that they're becoming so powerful that when they fall, so will the majority of american institutions.
I don't think you understand the strategy.
The strategy hinges on the Jacobins becoming so hated that the sans-culottes, the silent majority you speak of, stop giving a damn what happens to the Jacobins.
History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.
Robespierre did meet the guillotine in the end.
It's going to happen again; the Jacobins will be put to the blade; I'm just not sure when, and more importantly, how long the Populist Right is going to be made to suffer before then.
I think the historical comparisons run aground when you consider how many guns there are in America. This is the best armed citizenry in the history of the world. I'm not saying they can't be made to suffer, but I do wonder what that would even look like. I know Dems are going to push new gun control laws, but look how that shit played out in New Jersey - they banned high capacity magazines, and precisely zero people turned theirs in to police. If police wind up going door to door attempting to physically confiscate firearms from Americans, you will see an uprising overnight.
Less than 40% of people in New Zealand turned in their banned firearms after the Christchurch shootings.
But, I will argue over and over again, that the spirit of the fight just isn't in the people right now. It should be -- stopping tyranny before it can sprout is obviously the best option -- but revolutions are always reactionary, if they're organic.
And that's why you'll never see a mass gun confiscation; the manpower isn't there, and it will cause a bloody reaction.
What will happen is they'll institute bans on modern arms, they'll cripple the entire gun industry with regulation (killing a multi-billion dollar industry and putting even more thousands of people out of work), they'll regulate magazine capacity, and they'll institute mandatory buy-back programs to be rewarded with a rapidly-inflating currency that won't even cover the cost of many of the arms that would potentially be turned in.
A few choice targets will be made examples of, and they'll have myriad charges dropped on them to scare the rest of the populace into compliance.
We can only hope -- as miserable a solution as that is -- that the increased demand for arms among even people who are traditionally anti-gun will provide too much push back for the Dems to comfortably introduce gun control measures.
People might not have turned them in, but future acquisitions are fucked as a result, so they just have to wait it out and eventually future generations are defanged.
I personally think it's more that most conservatives see that the marxist ideology eventually destroys itself. Today's woke will be cancelled by tomorrow's woke.
The issue now is that they're becoming so powerful that when they fall, so will the majority of american institutions.
Also history has shown they can remain in power for a lifetime or two.
The silent majority exists, they're just fucking lazy and stupid, the frog in a pot.
Silent majority does not exist.