Is there anything you'd be willing to fight a war for?

[Eric the Green]

(10-15-2022, 10:29 PM)JasonBlack Wrote: ex: I'm slow toward violence, but there are definitely a few topics which would make me take up arms
1) An actual communist coup
2) Repealing of the 2nd Amendment
3) mass immigration from a culture that unironically practiced child sacrifice
4) Takeover by any non-democratic power (Muslim Theocracy, fascist, absolutist, non-constitutional monarchy, etc)
5) A law making it illegal to eat meat

To be clear, I do not care about honor, bravery, heroism or anything of the sort. Neither do I consider myself to be particularly courageous, strong or skilled in combat. If anything, I am a rather boring person and want nothing more than to settle down with a comfortable income and raise a family; however...under any of these circumstances, my life would be devoted to killing as many of them as I could get my hands on who refused to surrender.

Put down your arms. We don't need the 2nd Amendment.

We only need arms if we are going to fight a civil war.

And in this case, armed citizens are not enough to win, so why try? You just get beat, and your arms confiscated.

If you want to fight a civil war, it will be necessary to organize a state of your own, like the Confederacy, organize armies with genuine strategy, and probably get foreign help or find a source to buy weapons from. 

But this is where I might agree with you.

4) Takeover by any non-democratic power (Muslim Theocracy, fascist, absolutist, non-constitutional monarchy, etc)

The Republicans are doing this right now, and if they win midterm elections in 2022 for governor and secretary of state in swing states, as may even be likely, they will insert a Republican in office as president in Nov.2024 that the people or even the people in those states did not vote for.

So then, the democratic Left will need to do more than their customary outburst of demonstrations and riots. They would need to organize an alternative state, organize an army, get weapons, and fight. If I am fit enough, I might even join up and fight the Classic Xers. This may take the form of secession too. Anything less than this will be put down by the Republican police state. The odds of victory are long in any case.