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To: DTogo

” The Liberal side will mostly be caught ill-prepared arming themselves at random (quality and no experience issues), likely fight impulsively as random gangs (no formal training in organizing and tactics), and fight for their own personal short-term gain at the end of each battle (hamper their Statist leaders’ goals)

In the end the Liberal side will not have the brains, stomach or heart to continue the fight. Their unconditional surrender will be the final nail in the coffin of Socialism/Statism in America. “

I’m guessing that this parallels the thinking of the Roman leadership, and population - the day before the Vandals came knocking at the gates....


51 posted on 07/30/2010 10:17:35 AM PDT by Uncle Ike (Rope is cheap, and there are lots of trees...)
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To: Uncle Ike
It's not a good analogy.

The Roman Empire fell because it had a hollowed-out middle class, and a hollowed-out military. Its founding principles of civic virtue were eroded by the pauperising effect of the public dole. Its wealth-producers were taxed to death, and state spending was completely out of control.

See for instance this excellent resource from the aptly named Cato institute

Big state socialism caused the fall of the Empire. It's no accident that centuries later the Roman fasces - the axe and stick bundle - were adopted as part of the symbology of Mussolini's socialist state.

A great many Roman Citizens were glad to see the Vandals, because it meant they were no longer prisoners of the state!

54 posted on 07/30/2010 10:30:51 AM PDT by agere_contra
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To: Uncle Ike
In the end the Liberal side will not have the brains, stomach or heart to continue the fight.... [you] I’m guessing that this parallels the thinking of the Roman leadership, and population - the day before the Vandals came knocking at the gates....

Actually, it is almost exactly what the Confederate leaders thought about the North's ability to fight a war. And look how that turned out for them.

84 posted on 07/30/2010 11:51:13 AM PDT by r9etb
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To: Uncle Ike

Uncle Ike, et al

I am starting to think it will be very much like the rome vs vandals / goths etc.

The mindset of the mucky-muck socialist/marxist moron tribe.

(go read Whittle’s Tribes essay again.)

means that confronted with an across the board rejection of their ‘leadership’ they don’t have useful tools to respond with.

the lamestream media won’t help them in this scenario.

that is why zero wants a kill switch for the internet.

woerm


163 posted on 08/01/2010 10:05:15 AM PDT by woerm (student of history)
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