There’s a number of historical and contemporary parallels to draw against what would probably happen which have already been said elsewhere. The common thread is that a large number of people will die over a number of years (but not as many as in a proper war) and not much will be accomplished by either side.
There won’t be a front line or pitched battles like people are fantasizing about. Something will kick it off, maybe a riot, an assassination, or maybe an opposition leader gets life in prison or even executed on fabricated treason charges and people start shooting/bombing about it. Then there will be a round up of “terrorists” and probably some lynchings that go unpunished after all the current surveillance tech out there miraculously “fails”, all followed by a protracted insurgency as a response to these acts.
I always picture the images out of Ireland where there’s some armed folks crouched behind a wall surveying down the street, plus some non-combatants walking home with their groceries. You’ll have a mix of people fighting for their political causes, criminal elements taking advantage of the chaos, and people settling personal scores under the cover of it all.
I really question the idea that if this breaks out in blue cities, particularly ones where the city is an island of a sea of red, how realistic it would be for blue city leaders to control their police departments. I’m in one of those cities, I have no doubt that while our mayor wouldn’t endorse violence, would try and mitigate police violence and get ignored. During our BLM protests we had heavily armed caravans of counter-protestors drive in from the boonies, across the state, and from out of state, probably 5:1 them vs us, including outlaw bikers and unabashed neo-Nazis/Aryan Nations. The cops stood with their backs to them and ignored multiple incidents of brandishing and death threats, even refused to press charges on the kid who popped a shot off into the ground to spook the crowd. Their sniper nests were line of site on the speakers, not the agitators. I don’t think anyone believes the cops are going to pick a side.
There’s a number of historical and contemporary parallels to draw against what would probably happen which have already been said elsewhere. The common thread is that a large number of people will die over a number of years (but not as many as in a proper war) and not much will be accomplished by either side.
The Troubles, American edition.
Yup.
There won’t be a front line or pitched battles like people are fantasizing about. Something will kick it off, maybe a riot, an assassination, or maybe an opposition leader gets life in prison or even executed on fabricated treason charges and people start shooting/bombing about it. Then there will be a round up of “terrorists” and probably some lynchings that go unpunished after all the current surveillance tech out there miraculously “fails”, all followed by a protracted insurgency as a response to these acts.
I always picture the images out of Ireland where there’s some armed folks crouched behind a wall surveying down the street, plus some non-combatants walking home with their groceries. You’ll have a mix of people fighting for their political causes, criminal elements taking advantage of the chaos, and people settling personal scores under the cover of it all.
I really question the idea that if this breaks out in blue cities, particularly ones where the city is an island of a sea of red, how realistic it would be for blue city leaders to control their police departments. I’m in one of those cities, I have no doubt that while our mayor wouldn’t endorse violence, would try and mitigate police violence and get ignored. During our BLM protests we had heavily armed caravans of counter-protestors drive in from the boonies, across the state, and from out of state, probably 5:1 them vs us, including outlaw bikers and unabashed neo-Nazis/Aryan Nations. The cops stood with their backs to them and ignored multiple incidents of brandishing and death threats, even refused to press charges on the kid who popped a shot off into the ground to spook the crowd. Their sniper nests were line of site on the speakers, not the agitators. I don’t think anyone believes the cops are going to pick a side.
Pretty much, the main perps will be MAGAts as well. The middle is too gutless for violence and the left prosecuted heavier than the right.
It’s worked for like a century