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Violence isn't futile. the opposite.
The us government simply cannot control America if violence peaks above a certain level. Their military assets aren't sufficient for a country of 330 million with 400 million gund, their recruit pool would collapse and their ability to raise taxes and thus finance the debt would evapourate.
The American government would simply not remain stable if levels of violence reached even a dull roar. Whether it'd result in regime change or dissolution is anyone's guess
Violence is futile unless you have enough of it. The right does not.
The US government can easily control America at any likely level. They don't even have to start with violence; doing the Canadian thing of cutting dissidents off from the financial system will work wonders. But once the government starts using violence, it wins easily. The only way it wouldn't is if the military itself became divided... but the military has become politically aligned to the ruling class in the past few years, so that's no longer likely.
Dude the banking maneuver didn't even work in Canada... It lasted 3 days effected 10 people and became a scandal large enough it almost brought down the government (in the Westminster parliamentary sense, not the total system collapse sense)
If the US military tried to deploy as a security force within the US it'd immediately be drowned in the vast scale of the country, whilst simultaneously setting off a powder keg of reaction.
There's a reason the Military was so adamant it not be used during the George Floyd protests... Given the scale of the protests it wasn't obvious they'd win, and even a temporary retreat would have probably gotten out of hand
It worked, the truck protest was ended with no concessions by the government, there haven't been any large protests since, and the government then successfully withdrew the emergency act declaration to avoid scrutiny.
Because that's the other side. Had the Jan 6 protestors been a little more violent, the military would have been sent in to machine-gun them all without any issues.
Then a week later they conceded all the policies the truckers were demanding and by summer Canada had fewer restrictions than the US.
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Jan 6th turning into a Russian style bloody Sunday would have been the end of the republic. Every single faction would have embraced armed struggle after something like 100 protestors killed
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Most US history books applaud the President for federalizing the National Guard to enforce Federal policy countermanding the orders of the Governor who had deployed that same National Guard unit to enforce the contrary State level policy. He also invoked the insurrection act and deployed a "tip of the spear" paratrooper battle group to support the effort. The politics of that time related to the underlying event and why there were contradicting policies between the State and Federal governments were also rather sharply divided across the country.
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