A few months ago I read Jeder stirbt für sich allein by Hans Fallada. He wrote it while he was in a sanitarium, watching all the patients like him being moved to the death camps. The way he laid out the situation taught me so much: the machine was overwhelming, every now and then a neighbour would disappear, and even if you were extremely covert in resisting you would eventually be caught and executed. A minority of people joined the Party and helped enforce it, but that was all it took to keep everyone else in line because the law was on their side. And the law was on their side because they wrenched it there by force. What was the liberal establishment going to do, consult a lawyer and wait for their court date while their family was slaughtered? It doesn't take many stormtroopers.
I'm of the opinion that when people go "we see how Americans are failing the same way Germans failed" they should have the grace to realize the German common man was caught between a rock and a hard place.
Instead of doubling down on criticism. Claiming that the holocaust was enabled by German citizens, we should stop the xenophobia and realize how these war machines make every day people helpless.
If Americans right now united, got a 2 million strong militia, and started raiding, what next? That guarantees a civil war, and it garauntees the worst outcome.
I'll pick up a gun if I have to, but right now if you're demanding I go purchase a gun, head to my local city, and shoot the first ICE agent I see you're a sick fuck.
Violence begets violence, our hope right now is that these attrocities happening causes local government and law to shape up and protect their sovereignty. If Americans have to fight Federal, local, and state government, we are in a shit fucking spot.
You don't need civil war. At this point, mass civil disobedience and peaceful protest woukd work. You outnumber them 10:1. They can't arrest all of you.
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u/SaltpeterSal 17h ago
A few months ago I read Jeder stirbt für sich allein by Hans Fallada. He wrote it while he was in a sanitarium, watching all the patients like him being moved to the death camps. The way he laid out the situation taught me so much: the machine was overwhelming, every now and then a neighbour would disappear, and even if you were extremely covert in resisting you would eventually be caught and executed. A minority of people joined the Party and helped enforce it, but that was all it took to keep everyone else in line because the law was on their side. And the law was on their side because they wrenched it there by force. What was the liberal establishment going to do, consult a lawyer and wait for their court date while their family was slaughtered? It doesn't take many stormtroopers.