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after 8 years of the bush administration, dk, you best believe that any action like that from the extreme right militia movement would be understood as what it really is--a kind of neofascist revolt, something on the order of the good old days of the s.a.. folk within these pretend-soldier outfits would have to be out of their fucking minds to do anything simply because the primary difference between the clinton period and now is that the period of open door to the lunatic right that the republicans allowed during their last opposition period is done, and the language that they fashioned across that period has entirely lost whatever traction it might at one point have had---the phase of conservative coalition building that enabled these militia groups to pretend that they are not neo-fascists in the main is over. so there'll be no ground for consent building. so if there is a movement, i expect it'll look at bit like the "general strike" in france did of 1919--the one that never happened, that resulted in a few dozen people wandering around disconnected parts of france looking for the revolt that never transpired.
if these folk are smart, they'll sit tight and wait for the smoke to clear for a while.
if they aren't smart, and it doesn't sound like they are from your description, it will be the beginning of their wholesale political destruction.
and if an armed confrontation is launched, they'll be a bunch of carnage for absolutely nothing---all that'll be at stake in it really is the inability of these country brownshirts to face reality.
ultra-reactionary paranoids with guns: there is no upside.
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