In this post of hers, it certainly sounds like Susie wants a civil war to go hot!
“At What Point Do We Shoot The Gun Nuts?”
“Perlstein doesn’t mention the big honkin’ elephant in the room: Namely, at what point does the federal government literally go to war with its own citizens? Because we’re not talking about bank robbers here, we’re talking about (mostly) non-criminal cranks — scofflaws and political malcontents. So what line has to be crossed in the good old U.S. of A. before we start mowing them down to make our point? Because you can’t talk about the Bundy ranch without talking about Ruby Ridge, and Waco.”
“So here’s the political corner into which we’ve painted ourselves.”
“Do we have the ATF and BLM agents roll up in armored tanks? Do we use drone strikes? I can see the administration’s reluctance to have that confrontation — after all, it’s not as if gun control advocates were flooding the White House switchboard, screaming to ‘take them out!’ And then we do have the militia types all over the country, just waiting for an excuse to start their own local uprising. These assholes want a civil war so bad, they can taste it.”
“Some days, I wonder: Should we let them, and just get it over with? You know, settle the burning question about whose is bigger.”
Susie, you may not be so eager to "let them". Our second civil war will not be on polite little battlefields in far away places. It will be hunters, with scoped rifles, and experience, putting a round through your family's window. Putting you down increases their morale, and decreases your side's morale, since you are a voice for the other side. Morale is a "force multiplier", and thus killing you as you pull into your driveway does far, far more for their cause than standing toe-to-toe with an army. It will also be roving gang of urban thugs, looking to accumulate what they want and need. They will not care one whit about your liberal credentials, by the way.
(Hint: Both the hunters and the thugs have been paying attention to asymmetrical warfare in the Middle East, and they've learned that the big bad American military can be fought to a standstill, or better, even by a rag-tag bunch of 14th Century cowards.)
In your lovely ivory tower, you seem to think that this mental exercise will be sterile and safe and easy, since your entire life has been that way (despite your likely insistence that you've been a victim of some oppression at some point). Trust me, when the real shooting starts, and you have only the four-day supply of food in your pantry to last you for 6-20 months because no stores will be able to open, and you'll have no gas for your car, and no job to go to, and no internet to write your thoughts upon, and your neighbors who have always cheered your postings will show up at your door (whether you are there or not) to take what they need and they think you have (violently if you refuse), then you'll regret your remarks... that is, up until that rifle scope takes a peek at you. I truly doubt that anyone on either side of the fight will miss you much. Why do I say this? Because even if your side wins, history has shown, repeatedly, that in the immediate aftermath of this kind of fight, your side quickly starts killing off the educated elites... and I'm betting that you have firmly and publicly ensconced yourself in that group, and everyone on your side knows it. Just a little historical FYI for you. Win or lose, you're a very desirable target for elimination. Your only place of safety is in making sure that this fight does NOT happen. Once it does, you had better hope that you're able to find a safe place, likely very far away, and that transportation routes haven't been shut down yet. You might have about 8-12 hours to get there. Good luck.