Election Day 2020

[beez]

@"Wallfire" is correct in his assessment.

If it comes to arms, it will be like nothing ever seen in this nation before. The Revolutionary War was the people against a government, and had rules. "The Civil War I" was one nation against another, two governments against one another, and again had rules. This time, it will be the people against other "the people", and the people against a nebulous "they" which is incredibly slippery and difficult to pin down.


The fog of war is bad enough already, but when everything moving becomes a potential target, unspeakable things are bound to happen, and at the time, to the perpetrators, will be seen as "normal", "necessary", or even "meh". There is a callousness that develops, and eventually nothing is out of bounds - especially when your back is against the wall and no one has handed out rule books.

While it is true more or less that there comes a time in every man's life when his only alternative is to spit on his hands and hoist the Black Flag, that time is not yet for America. There is no need to take recourse to arms before all other, more peaceful, avenues have been exhausted, and they have not yet been.

Let the courts and the investigators run their course before folks start hiding in the weeds and bustin' caps at each other. When you walk down that road, it gets incredibly difficult, if not impossible, to ever walk back again.

Some will never make it back. They will be casualties every bit as much as the masses of bodies laying in the streets. Perhaps worse. It is a terrible thing to kill a man's soul and leave his body still walking around.

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Sure, future generations may speak about "the glorious and heroic revolution" - or they may talk about the time "traitors" tried to take their country back, but that is neither here nor there in real-time - when you're the guy on the ground, smoking gun in one hand and bloody knife in the other, with blood splattered all over his face, running down into his eyes and even his mouth, it's real hard to see what that future is going to be - hell, it's hard to see what the next minute is going to be, much less a distant "future".

Being prepared is one thing, jumping the shark is another thing altogether.

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“It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.

-Sherman