It is something I have never understood. I am a Combat Vet. I have a lot of friends who are Vets.
Thank you for your service. I am an Army veteran from 1978 to 1983, 11B.
I think it would be a stretch to imagine them marching off to lay siege to a city.
OK, you do realize what you observe from your friends is not indicative of everybody, right?
And you talk about running out of food? Who is going to supply this miracle army of yours?
In every civil war, there is a hard core group that sees to that, and there would be a series of conflicts for each side to secure their logitical supplies, and the reds have the definite advantage here. Over timethe defensivelines would establish themselves as they did in Croatia, Yemen, and elsewhere, leaving most contiguous areas in tact, initially, a huge stand off. But the reds would have most of the couuntry and the blues will not be able to feed their own urban populations.
And while they are laying siege who is going to be protecting their lands and houses?
Trained civilians who are not fit for long term deployment away from home will likely be organized into semi-military forces, like large pools of deputized citizens, state guard units, etc. they would defend the home front, in all likelihood.
Idiots like you who clamor for war are demonstrating only how incredibly stupid you are.
I do not clamor for war, but it is better to have a Civil War than to let Marxists run the nation, that is for damned sure, and disagreeing with you hardly makes me an idiot, jack ass.
It would not be over in a couple days or a couple weeks. It would not end in a couple months. However it ended and no matter who won the Constitution would be dead. And then what? Defeat the Marxist’s to become Fascists?
A civil War to defend Constitutional government will not destroy to Constitution, moron.
if it kicks off everything is lost. America dies on that day. And you can’t wait to kill the country.
Lol, I do not want a civil war, which is why I support Trump. And if we have a civil war America wont die, so why dont you just try to calm yourself and go change you panties.
And if Biden should win this November which is a real possibility, then you and your fantasy army will be the enemy. Have you even considered that? Will you kill the cops? Attack National Guardsmen? Will you do all the things you think only the inner city folks do? Idiot.
HAHAHAHAHAH, no, I will support the duly elected president of either party.
But I do think that the eventual possibility of a civil war will go way up by orders of magnitude.
What you advocate is your own subjugation under the boot of an oppressive Government.
You are a ******* idiot. I never said any such thing, Nancy.
I was a Combat Engineer. 12B2P by the time I left Fort Bragg. From 88 to 97.
If you think that the result of a Civil War will be a return to a Constitutional Government, than you haven't been paying attention to the Nation for the last few decades.
Congress, and that means both parties since control of Congress has flipped back and forth several times, has systematically eroded civil rights.
Take Search Warrants. Cops went to a bank and asked for information. The defendant argued all the way to the Supreme Court that they should have gotten a warrant. The Supreme Court ruled that because you gave the information willingly, that you had no expectation of privacy. Congress reacted by passing laws requiring the Banks to gather even more information, that they can get, at any time, without a warrant. Your Cell Phone, with it's great GPS apps and all that? Another law with no expectation of privacy. Congress passed the E-911 service law. It required that all Cell Phones have a GPS chip, so you can be tracked if you dial 911. Of course, for it to work, it has to be tracking your location all the time. So everyone is currently being tracked constantly.
Your Drivers License has all sorts of information available without a warrant. Now that is awesome. In Georgia it is against the law to be without identification. You are required by law to present that ID to any LEO who asks, and if you refuse you're headed to jail until the Cops identify you. Probably with criminal charges to follow for obstruction or something. Yet, again Congress passed the REAL ID act, which mandated all sorts of documents like your Birth Certificate, had to be attached to the REAL ID.
The funny thing is this. It supposedly is for our protection. The REAL ID act was to stop Terrorists from using fake ID's. But the Terrorists aren't using Fake ID's. They're using their real names, and we don't have a clue who they are. The only thing any of this is good for is tracking the people the Government is supposedly protecting.
Searches by the police without a warrant that would have been ruled unconstitutional when I swore the oath to join the Army, are now fine and dandy thanks to Supreme Court exceptions.
But take a look at anything. The FBI was breaking into houses and businesses illegally searching for information. When Congress found out they were furious. So angry after bloviating for the cameras, that they passed a law for the FBI to get secret Warrants with less information required than a regular warrant. But that wasn't enough. They then gave the FBI enhanced warrant abilities and the National Security Letter authority.
There were so many constitutional violations in the NSL's that it boggled the mind. It wasn't a search warrant but required you to comply with the search anyway. You could not contact an attorney, and you could not speak about the NSL or the FBI even being there. So First, Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments were just what, gone?
These days the outrage for the FBI is that some Cell Phones and Computers are encrypted. How outrageous. The FBI wants all encryption to include a back door that they can use to access the information. They use the same scare tactics nonsense that they always use. They have to be able to do this to protect us from Terrorists and Child Predators. The boogie men that are always the scare tactics.
Now, these erosion's of our Civil Rights did not happen under one or the other parties reign. They happened with Democrats and Republicans. They had bipartisan support. Republican and Democratic Presidents have used these powers and signed re-authorizations of the various oppressive laws. So returning to a Constitutional Government at this point is pretty much impossible, no matter who wins this notional Civil War.
The only choice would be Socialist/Marxist or Fascist. And I don't want either. As for what you think you're fighting for, I can talk about that easily.
In the 1980's, a cop seized drugs after entering a house illegally. There was a hearing on if the evidence would be admissible in court. The Defense Attorney started reading the Rights of a Citizen. After a minute the Judge interrupted him and said that we all knew the Bill of Rights. The Defense Attorney told the Judge that these rights were the rights of Soviet Citizens. Only they weren't worth the paper they were printed on. Secret Police could and did enter houses at will with no warrants. People were arrested and simply vanished. And there was nothing to restrain the Soviet LEO's from violating these rights. The only difference between our rights, and the Soviets, was the Judge who said that it violated our rights.
That was the attitude when I joined the Army. The idea that we had to defend the rights, and keep the KGB, the Stasi, the CSS, and any other authoritarian secret police from taking our rights away. They did not take our rights. But we lost them anyway. We lost them in hundreds of exceptions in court rulings. When the Judge didn't want to let the bad guy get away, and found an exception out of thin air.
Conservatives like to point out that the Right for a Woman to Choose is not in the Constitution. But Conservatives also ignore all those things in the Constitution that are plainly there.
So even if you and all your former mates from the Military are willing to fight for a return to a Constitutional Government. You won't get it. We lost that a long time ago. We lost that when we started finding exceptions based upon previous exceptions to the Civil Rights that we did not like. We did so arguing this was a nation of law and order. We cheered and pounded our chests at our good fortune in eroding those rights. The bad guy would not get away with it. And along the way, we twisted the court standards from innocent until proven guilty into he must have done something to end up here.
So as you speak about this civil war. You need to be honest with yourself. It will be Germany during the 1930's. Fascists and Communists fighting for control. The Fascists won. To the detriment of everyone. It will be Russia during the First World War and just after. When the Royalists and the Communists were fighting for control. The Communists won that one. And the funny part is that the Royalists didn't have any Royalty to fight for at that point. So what were they going to return to? Not the rule of the Czars. They were all dead. Murdered by the Communists.
Whatever comes out of the ashes of the civil war. Won't be what we have now, and it won't be a return to the Constitution. It will be authoritarian. Take your pick as to which one is better, because both are terrible in History.