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Liberal supreme court justices’ dissents reveal concerns that the US faces a crisis
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"Yeah, that's kinda the plan. Been going pretty smoothly so far."
-- MAGA
One thing I have observed about my fellow Usonians is that we all seem to have this strange, misplaced trust that eventually, ONE of our previous institutions will save us.
People crow about how the 2nd amendment will be what helps us prevent tyranny, but also seem to completely gloss over the fact that our police and military operate on an entirely different power level than citizens do. I have watched the US military terrorize people in Afghanistan and Pakistan for 20 years. Why do we think we would do any better against it?
Because they act like being a citizen who owns firearms means that you have an entire gun shed like Arnold Schwarzenegger from Commando. They don't understand that a good chunk of people probably have no business owning the one handgun they do own, would probably find a way to aim at the ground and still miss, and would probably piss themselves if they had to actually raise their gun against another human being. And these are the people who would be going up against people who have bigger weapons, better training, years of experience, body armor, and probably several other officers covering their backs.
They think that a citizen with the minimum amount of training needed to get a license going against a law enforcement or military soldier is in any way close to a fair fight. They think that if one day the Trump administration comes for them, they'll be able to arm up and defend their homes, as if law enforcement will eventually give up like it's GTA5 and their wanted level ran out.
They act like law enforcement and the US military won't follow an "illegal" order. They'll refuse to raise arms against their own citizens. Of course, they ignore decades of systemic racism. A law-enforcement and military culture that traditionally skews hard right. A police system where they insist that military equipment and SWAT-style raids are necessary for every bust right down to local street dealers, and seeing half a dozen cops pulled over even for simple traffic stops. Never mind the ones that would go along because the person who gave the order is also the person who gets to decide what is and isn't legal, and they're trying to avoid being jailed themselves. But they don't understand that not only is a sizeable portion of our military willing to follow illegal orders, they're chomping at the bit waiting for the opportunity to flex their muscles and go full COD on as many brown people as possible with the blessing of the US government. It's not a moral dilema to them. It's a wet dream.
And some of them are dumb enough to believe that the "doomsday preppers" will stand up and defend us, because this is the exact situation they've been prepping for! They don't understand that the preppers are MAGA themselves. If anything, most of the 2A gun nuts that are armed to the teeth would be more likely to gleefully join the Trump administration than stand up to them. And even if there is a doomsday prepper that actually isn't MAGA, they'd simply be overwhelmed by a military raid who would just seize the weapons and leave what's left of him as a splattermark on the walls wherever the bullets splattered his brain.
It wouldn't be a fair fight or anything close to it.
Who is "they"? What you wrote doesn't describe anyone I know. The people I know are deeply afraid, angry, and at times despondent. They try not to think too much about what's happening and just live their lives hoping that this will pass in 2027 or 2029 because they can't come to terms emotionally or mentally with what will happen otherwise.