for over a decade now, the dark matter of American politics has been the willingness of conservatives to simply threaten to murder anyone who disagrees with them. even after 1/6, it can't be confronted directly, because it is genuine failed state shit
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i think it is going catastrophically under-reported that the most likely reason bill cassidy may flip on RFK is because he's been told in no uncertain terms that he'll be murdered if he votes against him
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Hey. I have an idea
Rural Missouri.
My brothers and myself lucked out that we had progressive parents in that small town growing up. We all went to college and didn't return and our parents moved closer to the city.
But other family is there ... and they've excluded our parents from get-togethers etc. Very sad.
Daniel Perry committed first degree murder at a liberal protest, was convicted, then pardoned.
The guns aren’t because of the 2A or hunting, they’re for killing the “enemy.”
In this same stereotype, the gun owners are on the side of the oppressors--the NRA and Trump and the gun nutz march in lockstep, so the civil war canard does not make much sense.
Of course no flustered fudds take up
Many of us do think that in the case of "community crime patrols" e.g. MAGA brownshirts roaming in packs, which is not an
Obviously, nobody wants to be the one who actually gets popped, but this era of threatened violence has not translated to much actual violence, even where resistance occurred.
Another is that it's mostly cosplay.
And maybe it's fundamentally asinine bluster. Amateurs with civilian AR-15s would not last long against professional soldiers determined to disarm them, by prying the weapons from their cold dead hands if it came to that.
Successful revolts happen when the troops cross the barricades and point their guns back at the old bosses. Or at least stand neutral.