I'm not worried about a civil war
I understand the reason to worry about a new civil war. Agents have been trying to reignite it ever since they started seeding the south with the myth of the Lost Cause and dropping monuments across the south.
And, of course, that bunch loves their guns and loves to stockpile them for the day they must "once again" rise up and "defend" the south, or at least, their homes.
But rebellions are hard to start and harder to maintain. We've seen it tried over and over - The OKC bomber, the Charleston church massacre, OK & PB agents provocateur in Mpls, J6 and now the MAGAt who attacked the FBI with a nail gun yesterday.
The best chance that this would happen was J6. It was organized, funded, strategized and executed to be a coup at the moment of transfer of power. But, the attackers were a minority of the overall crowd. Some of the crowd were never there - they didn't go to the capital. Others were on the outer rings cheering but not engaging. And afterward, most of MAGA simply denied it happened.
They had to deny it. They had three choices - stand up and start the revolution, admit they are too comfortable/lazy/scared to get involved or deny it happened. Because nobody wants to risk what they have for a fantasy of what might be.
I've been there. I've been a member of the "burn it all down and start over crowd" when I was young. Eventually, I realized that that line thought is the product of lazy thinking and entitlement.
It's lazy thinking to believe that you "just have" a popular uprising, win and not recreate the same old mistakes. It's entitlement to believe that you are going to come out on top and not get run over by the mob.
These guys talk a lot and they were emboldened by TFG but they blew their best chance to coalesce into a real movement.
These terrorist actions, however - we do need to worry about those. Those are going to continue especially as disconsolate MAGAts watch their heroes and messiah go down one by one. Each one trying to spark the revolution.
We need to push back on the bullies. Our passiveness emboldens them. Beto was absolutely right when he called that heckler a "motherfucker". Beto did more to defend our children in one word than Republicans have done in decades.
These guys believe we don't have guns, that we won't fight back, that we won't push back.
It's long past time we started pushing back. Make MAGAts afraid again.
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