I will not lead my friends and neighbors out onto any limbs. When they pick their direction, I will be moving in their midst.
Are you really all so sure you'd like to prove me wrong?
I don't know how many among us have actually been in a shooting war. I have. I think that when you get there for the first time, you learn things you just can't put into stirring words on an internet forum; things you don't ever want any young folks to have to learn.
Greg
I agree with you actually quite a bit, now is the time for words and calm but firm discussion and trying to win over the hearts and minds of as many people as we can & fighting the good fight in the political arena with words, support, money, time and a whole lot of effort. It is an uphill battle but there is still hope & hopefully still time to prepare.
I think however if worse does come to pass and it turns into a hot shooting war between a government that decides to become a dictatorship and a large amount of the citizens who fight for the constitution, it will be nothing like even those who have been to war recently have seen, it will be probably worse than Stalingrad / Yugoslavia all mashed up together, there will be no holding back on either side.
There is one other thing to think about however. Who stands to gain most from America falling into civil war regardless of the outcome?
Imagine if somebody had been able to get America started on a civil war right before the start of WWII (and refrained from attacking the USA so as not to bring the people together), it wouldn't have mattered who won the civil war, by the time it was settled, the United States (or Divided States) would have been alone on their own little continent while the rest of the world land mass was in the firm grasp of the 3rd Reich and the Japanese ruled Asia as the German's allies, and America would not have had either the will or the capability to do anything but defend their own shores for a significant time period.
The other problem that everyone will realize really quickly if things go bad, is that too many of these "Militia" and "Patriot" type groups are lead by people who have a banana republic style idea of government and plan to simply be the new dictators. How many of these self styled "Militia" leaders actually will be happy with all the local citizens walking around well armed once they are in control of an area? Do you think they will actually really obey the constitution and understand that the constitution states that the government only exists by the will of the people and will be happy to go retire when the local citizens vote them out of their positions and go back to their normal lives?