And This is How Civil Wars Begin....

[Leuthas]

In a nut shell, if it ever goes to Civil War, I'm afraid I'll be in the middle 70%, shooting at both sides.

Understand that I'm not disagreeing with your post in whole, rather just the last sentence I find worrying. That just isn't how it plays out - ever. Take current discourse on the streets as an example: If you aren't far left, you are 'literally a nazi' and no amount of discourse can change that. You don't get to play in the middle.

Don't set yourself up for death by a mob of angry communists because you want to be moderate. They'll kill you because you aren't them. This is how every ANTIFA event has played out in figure, and once things gets froggy, the tactic will not change.

[Leuthas]

There's a very real and relevant meaning behind this:

[Firefly]

The problem is there is nothing left to rebel against....

[FromMyColdDeadHand]

Understand that I'm not disagreeing with your post in whole, rather just the last sentence I find worrying. That just isn't how it plays out - ever. Take current discourse on the streets as an example: If you aren't far left, you are 'literally a nazi' and no amount of discourse can change that. You don't get to play in the middle.

Don't set yourself up for death by a mob of angry communists because you want to be moderate. They'll kill you because you aren't them. This is how every ANTIFA event has played out in figure, and once things gets froggy, the tactic will not change.

Mass graves are not filled with virulent anti-whatever partisans. Mass graves are filled with people from the proverbial middle of the road who just happened to be the easiest to put in front of a ditch. Never peg the 'easy to blame' and 'easy to round-up'.

[Moose-Knuckle]

Don't set yourself up for death by a mob of angry communists because you want to be moderate.

Shhhhh!

Don't ruin the surprise.

[Circle_10]

I find the idea of "centrist militias" totally plausible, but somehow funny at the same time, because it sounds funny, since militias are usually considered the domain of extremists, which they really shouldn't be.

In reality there probably would be a lot of communities of "regular folks" who would arm up and organize to try and keep their town from falling under the sway of either of the two main warring factions.

[Doc Safari]

I find the idea of "centrist militias" totally plausible, but somehow funny at the same time, because it sounds funny, since militias are usually considered the domain of extremists, which they really shouldn't be.

In reality there probably would be a lot of communities of "regular folks" who would arm up and organize to try and keep their town from falling under the sway of either of the two main warring factions.

And if this were 1787 that might fly, but the liberal MSM won the battle over defining the militias as nut cases over 20 years ago.

I started circulating the concept of "militias in three-piece suits", meaning keep the militia philosophy, but use legal civilian means to accomplish the militia goals of protecting the Second Amendment and freedom in general.

For example, infiltrate a liberal organization and start leaking all their plans to NRA, etc.

[Whiskey_Bravo]

And in line with my point above:

Los Angeles DJ Calls For Covington Catholic School to be Burned Down – With Kids Locked Inside – TWITTER SAYS HE DIDN’T VIOLATE RULES

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/201...violate-rules/

The hypocrisyof the left is amazing.

[FromMyColdDeadHand]

Now CNN says that it wasn't the MSM that caused the wrong message to get out, it was a twitter account....

https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/21/tech/...ens/index.html

[glocktogo]

I find the idea of "centrist militias" totally plausible, but somehow funny at the same time, because it sounds funny, since militias are usually considered the domain of extremists, which they really shouldn't be.

In reality there probably would be a lot of communities of "regular folks" who would arm up and organize to try and keep their town from falling under the sway of either of the two main warring factions.

That's usually how it happens, until one of the groups commits some atrocity against them and then they align with the opposition.