Russian Revolution was boneheads advocating social justice. So was the Red Guard. There is a history of this sort of thing: left democide.
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I have spoken with lefties who would put me in a reëducation camp in the name of social justice, but they have no route to real power
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Naïve. Post trump backlash. That's what they said about the KKK after Obama, and now they run America.
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The far right have a channel to power through mainstream right media. No element of the hard left have anything like that.
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That's a fascist's way to power.
We have the blueprint from the Russian Revolution. The soil is ripe for something similar.
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With Trump antagonizing a majority of the troops by siding with fascists, the neo-nazis and the leftists both have their bases covered now.
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Until they can centralize and automate autonomous UAV/UCV deployment, they need soldiers to suppress revolt.
Soldiers might not play ball.
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I thought that if it came to it cops would side with the fash but SF seems to show Team Fascist screwing that up
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Yeah, but they lack the training to use their fancy military toys in a full-blown insurrection.
We may be heading towards just that.
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Standard for keeping order in post-war Iraq much looser than in the USA, dontchathink?
Wouldn't expect US civilians to bear life with IEDs.