Originally Posted by
Alpha-17
Yes, it is better to die trying to fight for freedom than give in and live the existence of a slave to the state.
No, you mean exactly what I said, even if you just don't realize it. You would have been the guy in '76 saying that rebellion against the King is a bad idea, because the colonists would lose the autonomy they had left, as well as their "lives, property, and sacred honor." That's very obvious when you read the rest of your post.
Voting doesn't work. Full stop. The franchise has been expanded too far to be of any value, and just as "citizen" lost any real meaning to the Romans, it has too lost its value to Americans. The importation of new voters and fighters makes that increasingly obvious. The old saying that "people that work for a living will be outvoted by people that vote for a living" is true. Thus, voting has the same impact as that nicely worded letter. We do it every 2-4 years, and it results in nothing. "Oh, well," we say, "We'll vote harder next time!" Rinse and repeat. Definition of insanity.
Yes, as could be said of every war in human history.
And those people are getting it daily, without any real opposition. All that voting is working wonders, ain't it?
And again, we're slowly getting the "new socialist democracy" already. Anyone that opposes it is a racists, fascist, Christian Nationalist, etc. Fighting back, making use of that last box of liberty, is damn near our last hope for preventing that.
I'd say our last kerfuffle in '61-'65 has as much to do with the current issue as the War of the Roses did with the English Civil War. Similar concepts, but no real equivalence or "do that again." Trying to use our singular Civil War as some sort of guide post by which any future domestic struggle will be fought or turn out is just silly. At the very least, branch out and consider the Revolution, various Secession crisis, and events like the Battle of Athens.
"Shooting your way back" is never the easy route, which is why it's the last option, the last "Box of Liberty" to be used. The powers that be know that, which is why they only push so far, so fast. They try to intentionally avoid triggering the one reaction they can't control. If that means letting any one who wants liberty to have a minor tactical victory, so be it. That's why they let Trump win in 2016, why they let SCOTUS issue rulings that are either ignored by the Left or used as propaganda to rally their base. All the while, they march steadily along, making leaps forward from time to time, and grinding us down no matter what.
I get your hesitation. As recently as a few years ago, I wasn't an "accelerationist". I thought that there was still hope, that eventually people would realize the logical outcome to current events, and we'd change. Somewhere in my post history is an argument with another member here about how the Pro-Gun Richmond, VA rally in 2020 was a waste of time. He argued that it didn't accomplish anything because all that combat power was amassed, but lacked the will to do anything. I felt differently, that it showed how many people were willing to stand up and do something, and the powers that be had to recognize that fact. As the rest of 2020 showed, he was right, and I was wrong. Dead wrong.
Bottom line, the country is going to hell in a handbasket. Whether it's 100mph towards the cliff, or only 45mph with occasional bathroom breaks, the end result will be the same. The system isn't working as intended, at least not as intended by the Founding Fathers, and therefore we are left with only one option to turn to. It's not an easy option, and it will be bad, messy, and brutal. Sacrifices will have to be made, and it's probable that the entire country can no longer be saved. But if even a small remnant can be rebuilt into something like what once was, it's better than the alternative.
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