BLM, Antifa, the weekend and the suburbs

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While there is still reason to believe that the vandalism, protests and looting could spill out into the suburbs, suburbia is taking preventative action:



If suburbia's warning is not heeded and the riots and looting still come - perhaps under the cover of darkness - it will force the issues that matter onto the front porch of millions of centrists or apolitical types there. They will witness what cannot be filtered by the mainstream media, and millions will be forced to take a side, if only to protect their property. Millions of centrists or apolitical types will discover that their ability to defend themselves comes down to being armed.


They will get a sobering reality check, which will show just how close we are to the sort of class-based, racially-explicit violence targeting the wealth and property of those outside of the cities, much like the Boers (farmers) in South Africa and, incidentally, the Kulaks (middle-class peasants) in the nascent Soviet Union. With police stepping down or out of reach due to the ongoing chaos, we are on our own. 

Now is the perfect time for the public to become aware of the importance of defensive gun ownership. It is also the time to remind the public that certain people wish to confiscate these weapons:






They have been making progress with this agenda for years, especially with the "think of the children" argument and by pairing gun ownership with "white supremacy" (see also here), "mass shootings" or the deaths of young Blacks due to urban violence, in general. There was even the utilization of Holocaust propaganda.

You would think that, at a time when America is consumed by riots, there would be cause to pump the brakes on the gun-grabbing agenda, even as just a political strategy. But no:




What is frightening is that they probably do not have to. They must merely emphasize social justice themes, i.e. the concern that guns kill women/LGBT/Latinos/blacks (1, 2) , and the support will be there. They must merely present guns in connection with "white supremacy", mourn the deaths of young Blacks or Latinos while pointing the finger at gun violence or craft an emotional argument about saving children's lives, and the emotional weight will do the rest. The thing to be aware of is that the size of the demographic to which these arguments will appeal is expanding in just about every state where gun rights are a big deal. The result is the almost near certainty that gun-ownership rights will be challenged there, with Virginia being the first litmus test.

The silver lining, however, is that if centrists or otherwise apolitical types are driven to see the importance of gun ownership, those who get the votes to push gun control are going to experience a blowback from those who find themselves being disarmed under state legislation. Already, parts of Northern Virginia were considering succession from  over the issue of gun control, and West Virginia offered to incorporate those regions. The more this general public is inclined to value gun-ownership rights, the more likely it is going to be in favor of such solutions - and demand them.

Incidentally, the re-creation of ideologically-aligned district communities is probably the path towards that which will either save the Republic, or at least create a pathway towards peaceful separation. The point is that the country already has a strong, state-based power structure, and rather than having a situation where the gun-grab lobby simply dictates everything to everyone from Washington D.C., each state could simply go its own way and maintain all the advantages the U.S. has in terms of common currency and economy.

Everything will depend on how flexible those with the power are, but that is ultimately what it will come down to, too; as noted, the demographic most likely to vote for gun control after being animated by social justice is growing, while the demographic that had consistently voted for the opposite, the aging white demographic, is in its sunset years and in decline. Meanwhile, the demographic that can likewise be animated by hot-button issues, such as immigration, is rapidly increasing due to immigration and a high birth rate, and is inclined to vote for the party that wants to make immigration easier, which also happens to be the party which is pushing to restrict gun ownership. As immigrants, they are also poor and, with the number of poor in the country also increasing, it is also this same party, with its larger social welfare packages, that is going to get the votes. We need to understand that, at this time, Texas is on the verge of changing from a "conceal-and-carry/stand-your-ground" Republican stronghold to a state led by Democrats whose supporters want all-out gun confiscation. 

As noted previously, without carrying Texas, the Republicans are likely to never win another U.S. Presidential Election (see: Yes, Texas flipping blue could end America as we know it). Such an occurrence would trigger a crisis that could only be resolved if the Democratic south and Republican north of Texas are severed from one another, and each part keeps its representatives. When centrists and apolitical types are terrified over the prospect of losing their weapons to protect themselves, but their vote is still not enough to keep gun-grabbers out of office, the outrage over potential gun confiscation is likely to help push along this realignment process. States would then become largely self-governing, like-minded communities, and a crisis would be averted on multiple levels - that is, as long as whatever happens with the looting and rioting does not result in mass bloodshed, chaos and anger that too quickly foments into civil war.
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