(February 24, 2018 at 10:27 am)wallym Wrote: If you kill off all the civilians, you'll be left with a shell of a country with no value. The whole point of running the US is that it's rich and powerful. If you use your military to endlessly fight your own populace, it'll be neither rich nor powerful real quick. Which was the original counterpoint to someone saying an armed population doesn't matter if the government goes totalitarianist on us, or something to that effect. Not that I think the government is ever going to attempt such a thing. But practically speaking, there'd be no reason to try because you'd have to burn the whole country to the ground.
It's never going to be the whole government against the people. Governments can only become totalitarian if a large proportion of the population agrees with it. Unfortunately this is beginning to happen now and it's the gun toting part of the population that are on the totalitarian side.
