You make a good case and I can't say any of it is wrong, except that the "visceral reaction" to J6 and the leftist violence waged over the course of 18 months was grossly one sided. The attempts to burn down a Church, plus the destruction of monuments and wanton vandalism that took place on and off in DC by leftist lunatics along with the attempts to destroy federal property in other cities and the assaults on federal agents made J6 look like a Code Pink sit in at Pelosi's office. Besides that, efforts were made to prosecute and punish offenders that pelted agents and buildings with rocks, ice bottles, molotov's and fireworks only to have then VP candidate Harris' minions bail suspects out.
I hope you can acknowledge the resentment "right wingers" carry because of this.
You may not envision or believe in the plausibility of the federal government failing to react, or even failing to exist as the USSR did at some point should chaos ensue across the country but I can. In New Orleans during Katrina some buddies I have in the Nat'l Guard were deployed for that, and in just that ONE CITY the resources that finally made it in to regain control after a week of absolute lawlessness were tremendous. If there was an event of political upheaval in more than 10 major cities simultaneously I think the bottom drops out. In N.O. alone half the city cops took their Crown Vic's and issued gear home to protect their families, neighbors and homes. Spread that out across the nation in multiple regions and you'll have a serious shit storm I don't believe we would recover from.
Of course YOU AND I would defend the nation from people who sought to destroy it, but only to a degree. When it's agents within the government causing serious harm to the public and hordes of people react violently, count me out. I would not have defended the Monarchs in Moscow in 1917, nor the Bolsheviks in 1991. As I see the future of the US at the moment, we have all the makings of a total collapse right now. We have all the definitions of FAILED STATE in place in so many parts of the country that the 550 cord and 100MPH tape holding it together might not be enough. I'm not going to oppose my own fellow citizens for a lost cause.
I agree to a great extent, all Federal buildings even in the permissive "do little, let it die down" cities should be defended,
brutally if necessary and attacks on those federal buildings and monuments owned by the all the people of this country be considered as attacks on the country itself, just as many of us thought about the J6 attack, and prosecuted strictly as Federal Crimes, in Federal Court, with Federal Prosecutors and Federal Judges protecting the interests of the whole country, as we the people have a case, whether local authorities seem to care or not. I don't for a second think that happened. I have the impression, those attacks on Federal property in those cities were mostly prosecuted the same as rest of the rioting, either only local half-hearted prosecutions, or let off as many of the rioters were in attacks elsewhere in those cities as more misplaced attempt at "fairness" in dealing with the rioters in general.
I realize the resentment of the "right wingers", but when it comes to Federal (which is the responsibility to all the people of the country vs local control, local prosecutors (some elected) and subject to local permissive influence of the same weak mayors and governors. So in the end, it not being treated the same as local control (or lack of control), the
resentment of the "right wingers" for not having their day in the sun, free to attack our government itself, with little consequence means "Dick'.
I had friends in The Guard, sent down for Katrina aftermath also. They were federalized. Some were misused and made to support the disarming of regular citizens in their homes, not doing it themselves but as backup for local/state LE to do it. It left a bad taste in their mouth as they knew it was wrong in many cases to be involved in that, especially in time of crises and lack of normal police protection of these people.
I don't hold your view of the possibility of a coordinated uprising in 10 cities. We do not have the markings of failed state, and there will be no "collapse".
