As long as the left controls the vote count in every state with their leftist poll workers - all attempts to sign up new voters for our cause will be fruitless. When the machine turns a red vote into a blue vote in the tabulation column after the fact - who voted for what is pointless also.
The left does not control the vote in every state. More states than ever are controlled by republicans from top to bottom. Yes, they suck. Yes, they are a fickle ally, but right now there is no alternative. Don't lose sight of that. It takes time to build a movement, and we cannot afford to lose the gains we made.
This is the line of control we need to hold for at least the next 4 years. Elections for federal positions are controlled by the states. We need to learn from the left and create sanctuary states. We need to ensure that Sheriffs take a stand against enforcing unconstitutional laws. We need to improve vote integrity laws in those places to stop the rot. The gap in the house is smaller that it was. We failed to take the objective, but we made some ground. Don't forget that.
If you walk away from that effort you are making a choice, right now, between submission or bullets. In the history of the world, kinetic conflicts are resolved either by a strongman gaining power, or a messy compromise that leaves unsolved issues in its wake. Both leave tensions that are the seed of future conflict.
Spain and Franco is an example of the first, and The Troubles are an example of the latter. Spain still has tensions from the results of the Spanish Civil War, though they are more muted now. Heck, CW I started over the unresolved issue of slavery, which was a can kicked down the road to give birth to the nation. And the whole issue of Northern Ireland is still unresolved and was a huge issue in Brexit.
And even if you do choose bullets, you cannot win, or even hold ground with the people, without a political arm. You need that first. In no case ever has a group achieved anything without a political wing. Heck, the Bolsheviks exploited a very weak military position by having an enormously effective political wing. The IRA had Sein Fein. Without either both movements would have failed. (Yes, I know USSR failed, but you can't deny the Bolsheviks won)
It took a long while to get where we are, it will take a long while to undo. There is no going back to where we were, not without a generational struggle. The more violent the struggle, the less likely you are to get anything resembling what you started with.
If you want to win, you have to work, at least in part, within the system. Sein Fein would win seats in Parliament, but never take their seats. Such actions send powerful messages to both supporters and the establishment. For the supporters, it shows they are not alone, and that there is a movement worth following. For the Brits, it showed that there was public support for the movement that could not be ignored.
The very last thing I want to see is this going kinetic. I have relatives that lived through the troubles and were impacted by it in very negative ways. I would wager 90% or more of the people here have utterly no idea what it is like to live, work and exist in that environment. And that includes all the GWOT veterans here. (That you for your service BTW)
No disrespect intended, but when you deployed, you didn't, in general, need to worry about violence against loved ones, or friends back home being targeted for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. No-one told your child at school that "We're going kill your Daddy if he ever shows up round here." On leave, or after deployment, you didn't have to check your car after going to the pub to check that there was a bomb under it, or if you opened that door to sign for the cool shit you just ordered you get shot by the guy in the UPS uniform instead.
Maybe you, or a friend, gets suspected of being an informer and just disappear, or get mixed up in something and it comes back round on your and your family. Yeah, yeah, we all have such high ideals and that would never happen here blah blah blah just like stolen elections would never happen. Bullcrap. It always has, it always does and so it will be again.
Ladies and Gentlemen, that is what this will look like if it goes kinetic. There are no clear battle lines. Anyone thinks otherwise, get that out of your head now. CW I pitted family against family, brother against brother. It will be ugly, brutal, and involve violence against your friends & family. There will no bystanders, and you get forced to takes sides whether you like it or not.
If it comes, then I'll be forced to take sides, whether I like it or not, because that is how these things play out. I've seen what that does, and by god I'll do everything I can to avoid it. Today, you may think things look bleak. Go outside the system now, and it will be bleaker in ways you can't imagine. Avoid the system, and do nothing to try to change it, and it will be bleaker in ways you can't imagine.
If we work within the system, and try to build on the movement Trump started, then we still may end up with the same bleak times, but at least we didn't just give up. We have to try, for the sake of our friends, our communities and our loved ones.
Hard men should not be afraid to do hard and unpleasant work, and attempting to change the system from inside will be both hard and unpleasant.