Generational Dynamics World View

[Bob Butler 54]

(06-05-2020, 07:23 AM)David Horn Wrote:

(06-03-2020, 01:12 PM)John J. Xenakis Wrote: ** 02-Jun-2020 World View: Civil war

During the Revolutionary war, it was the British army vs the Colonial army.  During the Civil War, it was the Northern army vs the Southern army.  Today, there are no such armies.

If there is anything the 20th century taught military strategists, it's the value of guerilla forces.  I count these ad hoc rightwing militias and anarchist entities (they aren't groups) like Antifa and the Boogaloo Bois as our guerilla forces in waiting.  Trump has done everything he can to incite them.  If this gets started as anarchy, it will end as autocracy ... or worse.

The militias have recognized elections.  If anything would set them off it would be a strict gun control.  Otherwise they look more like a force in being.  They are there, but don’t do much.  The Antifa exists primarily to counter KKK and Neo Nazi demonstrations.  The KKK and Neo Nazi groups aren’t ready to fight an insurgency.  They are there to inflame the racial distinctions, and would have to do some serious rethinking to oppose the federal military and police.  The Boogaloo Bois are trying to cause violence and lawlessness, which is different from fighting an insurgency.  They would have to reorganize, if you consider them organized.

This doesn’t mean an insurgency couldn’t develop if someone went strongly against the people.

Rachel Maddow last night spotlighted that federal armed men who are not willing to identify who they are have recently shown up in DC.  There is nothing like a unit ID, badge number or a name tag visible on their uniforms to identify them or hold them accountable.  

Now, I can see the feds having a place in DC to defend federal buildings.  I do not see them with a policing authority, a second police force not answering to the DC mayor.

I wonder what would happen if they step off federal property and a DC cop asked them to show a gun permit?