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A necessary action is often times an unwanted one. We have already crossed the point where non-violent solutions were useful, they are little more than half measures. Perhaps we might get lucky, but as Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus once said " Hope for peace prepare for war"
Edit: unwanted not unwarranted fucken auto correct
I’m fine with preparations. If it comes to war then we must try to win. But we don’t need to make that outcome more likely. I think the right has a huge advantage in war because of their inherent militarism and because legally Trump is the commander in chief and the military is very likely to side with him. It’s not to our advantage to fight them militarily.
But I think there are still other paths available to us. You are wrong that nonviolent solutions are not useful. They can and have been used successfully in situations far more dire than the situation in the US today. There is a widespread lack of knowledge about the effectiveness of civil resistance in our culture today and we need to educate ourselves about these tactics that have worked to bring down dictatorships in the past.
I highly recommend this book for a deeper dive on this topic: https://commonslibrary.org/civil-resistance-what-everyone-needs-to-know/
Their militarism is largely rhetoric and would at worst be an annoyance. As for the military they pull folks from all over the country many pf said peoples would have an incentive to desert and join up with said home region. Thats not even getting into the fact that the military would all of a sudden have a bunch of their logistics rat fucked and their supply depots and suppliers in question. To put it lightly at best the military would end up paralyzed at least for a bit in the event of a civil war, at worst total collapse of capabilities.
As for your point of non violence, I simply disagree on a baseline. Trump has broken the social contract him and any dumb enough to fight for him simply deserve death. This is a matter of principles to me, I consider the wrongdoing worthy of the death penalty and think it needs to be followed through. Combine that with the fact im a Californian nationalist and ya get a rather volatile mix.
I think a fair chunk of the military would ally with the Blue States. After all, Trump disbanded the cultural clubs of minorities, and is likely to steal their benefits or attempt genocide on them. The Blue Coalition would recruit the qualified people that Trump has exiled from Vichy America, and be far stronger for it.
The hatred of the Christofacist is not only bereft of morality, but also blind to the potential all people can have.