I agree with you regarding civil war. We will not have an off with their heads revolution here. We believe that this country is in the middle of a cultural war between the Progressives and the Conservatives. Not rich vs poor. One side or the other has to win. The two ideologies are not compatible and people like us who want to restore the constitutional republic will never accept the socialist/marxist takeover that is in progress. If we cannot do it at the ballot box then it will be done another way.
My personal belief is that the states will eventually save the Republic. We may not even experience a shooting civil war. We will in all likelihood experience an economic collapse in the next several years and we will see the individual states just start to go their own way to survive. They don’t have to officially secede. States will probably regionally band together and just ignore the Federal Government even to the point of witholding Alchohol, tobacco and gas taxes. Without that money the government will cease to function within a few weeks. The power of the bureacracy will be diluted. Out of this it will be possible to forge a new streamlined federal government and revitalize our capitalistic free trade system. Thats my theory I could be wrong.
We have decided to go with the idea of moving near to a samll close knit community rather than to an isolated retreat 20 miles out in the woods. The place we have selected is 8 minutes by auto to the center of town but it feels like you are out in the middle of nowhere. Its on top of a mountain so unless you know where this place is you would never find it accidentally. We also feel like its important to be part of the community and not isolate yourself. We plan to join the Sherrif’s auxillery as some of our friends have done and participate in the food bank deliveries etc.
That sounds like a great plan, and I hope all of our plans work out and we’re still freeping away a decade hence.