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I write for the left as much as for the right. Their ignorance about our values,preparations (ie guns,) and red-lines (ie 2nd amd) is very dangerous. Most of them believe that the fedgov could just clamp down and end riots, and get the food running again very easily. And if they could only get the guns away from the bitter clingers, utopia could be enforced on us all, for our own good. After all, we all belong to the govt.

They have no idea about what we think, and that's dangerous.

This is a great post to support a great article. Just because the idiots at The Wonkette don't get it doesn't mean the thought process is invalid. That's a result of Political Correctness. Reality doesn't conform to wishes. They accuse you of racism and mental masturbation but the reality is that you specified "This is only one of dozens of possible scenarios..." You're right.

They forget - because they didn't read Col. Benson's piece - is that yours is a response to, essentially, a war plan to take out the Tea Party. This is counter to the convention of "Think Tanks" and their process to label enemy combatants, some imaginary name "The People's Republic of Orange", or, The Rebellion against our Blue Country Ally. It was beyond the pale for Colonel Benson to label the OPFOR as Tea Partiers and if they read the original article and its comments they would get that.

Yours is a cogent written response to Colonel Benson's imaginings. One of the worst things that Liberals do is fail to understand:

1. The Law of Unintended Consequences

2. You cannot project your thought process onto your enemy.

Both are fatal errors. You're right. They have no idea what we think.

Great work and I thank you for it.

Thank you for all of the above; we are on the same page. It's a shame that any direct look ahead at the likely pathologies immediately causes one to be branded a racist, even though the intention is to prevent such horrible outcomes by raising the alarm about their very probability. But I feel I must power through the predictable opprobrium to deliver the message.

(It reminds me of some Pacific Island that stones anybody who mentions tsunami risk, and moving the village to higher ground. "Don't anger the sea gods with such talk!")

And to think, "Night Fighting 101" and "When the Music Stops" are nothing more than setups to "What I saw at the coup," which is what I really want folks on the other side to read. Now that I have the Wonkettes' attention, the chance of that has increased a lot. Currently, that bit of short fiction comes in at a thousand words longer than Music Stops.

"What I saw at the coup" is dedicated thusly:

"Short-fuse fiction by Matt Bracken, intended to cause grave alarm among die-hard progressives, in the spirit of dispiriting them from ever attempting such a mad folly in order to cling to power."