Fair enough. But as I see it, there are only two ways to stop this thing.CmdrKing wrote: ↑Thu Jul 18, 2019 11:00 amAnyways, I used Dachau as the example specifically because it was the first and longest running camp. The point is to evoke not 1944 Germany, but 1934 Germany. Because honestly there is no other language I can find to stress that these things do not simply stop on their own.
- Bring enough American voters over to your side that you start winning a lot of elections.
- Pick up a rifle.
Now, I'm a college-educated life-long Democratic voter. I've never pulled a level for a Republican above the local level. I regularly donate money to Democratic candidates. I have lived most of my life on the border, and my grandfather crossed it from Mexico less than 100 years ago, so I have no fear of brown people. By Texas standards, I am one step short of a communist, although admittedly by California standards I am decidedly centrist. So statistically speaking, I am about as open to your argument as any American voter is likely to be. I am more that willing to listen to your proposed policies and engage with them in good faith.
So if you're having trouble winning me over, then you're really going to struggle in Pennsylvania or Wisconsin. And that's a big problem, because if you actually want to replace Trump, you don't need people like me. You need white, uneducated, rural voters in Northampton, who kind of ARE afraid of brown people and are not super fond of Democrats in general. And frankly, I suspect comparisons to Dachau will not be very helpful, because when you say that word, nobody thinks Dachau in 1934, nor is it reasonable to expect them to. 1934 Dachau is not world-famous, forever immortalized Dachau. And yes, you can then go and clarify and explain what you really meant, but by that point, a whole lot of people have already written you off as a kook, and you'll have to work twice as hard to get them to take you seriously again.
A quick glance at the Middle East suggests this isn't true, though. Yes, YOU, armed with an AR, are not going to make much of a dent in things. You and 3 million other Americans (~1% of the population) armed with ARs and willing to use them....you can probably make America ungovernable. No, you can't beat the US military, but then again, you don't have to. The US military is an unbelievably expensive organization that relies on a powerful economy and well-organized supply lines to keep it fed. One sniper in a car managed to terrorize the East Coast for weeks. I'm not at all convinced our government could deal with a million Americans willing to start gunning down their fellow citizens.Because despite the trolling, the 2nd Amendment is a laughable defense against true government overreach in the 21st century. A bit like using bows and arrows against Spanish armor and muskets.
But let's hope it doesn't come to that.
