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Most of the people that talked up the 2nd amendment and that bought a bunch of guns are cheering on what's happening, so they won't fight against it. They're not phonys they're part of the dictatorship. It seems they like when other people get hurt, as long as its not them.
They just don't know history enough to realize, eventually it will be them. Just give it time. The only people that are truly safe from a dictorship are the dictator. Even his inner circle, a dictator will turn on a dime if they perceive disloyalty, or fear being usurped, or you made them look weak by doing a bad job, etc. Literally no one is safe but the dictator, that's generally why everyone is scared shitless all the time during times of dictatorship. No one is safe.
Yeah. I feel like the concept of America is just completely manufactured. Personified by the ignorant blowhards who LARP as heros but only fight when backed by the MIC (hold technological superiority against an inferior force), the Christian taliban who hate jesus and everything he stood for, and the oligarchs who got rich off the backs of immigrants; responsible for the populations mental illness epidemic.
It's quite obvious that the average American will roll over and let the Stalin, Putin, Mao, Xi or Hitler force them into absolute supplication before they bother with the minor inconvenience of protest or strikes, while being stupid enough to believe they represent freedom and justice. The only people willing to oppose the psychopaths are too liberalised to accept that they won't be stopped without violence, or too fragmented to provide meaningful resistance. A massive general strike would work, but that would require more cooperation and discipline than Americans have ever displayed, and the mental illness is too strong.
I hope I'm wrong.
Most of what you wrote is sadly true for any country.
Don't you think this cheering has already lost some of it's volume?
Mixed.
Some stopped cheering. Others are getting louder.