\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHicks showing up to repel antifa isn\u2019t a joke. \u201cIn the face of urban insurrection, increasing numbers of irregular troops muster in the provinces\u201d is a familiar pattern. Unless either
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\n- They are suppressed by main force, which would either result in the start of the long-planned shooting war or the suppressing troops defecting to them, or
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\n- Existing governments convincingly crack down on antifascism, in the face of impending elections
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\nI strongly expect they will attempt to seize control locally, purge their territories of what they take to be antifa, and begin to raise armies to retake the cities.
\nEveryone involved in leftist activism, known as leftists, media workers, nonprofit workers, visible minorities, as well as anyone who doesn\u2019t want to be around for this, in the Northwest outside of the I-5 corridor from Seattle to Eugene should have supplies and plans to relocate to it, by multiple routes. Alternately, if you are east of Idaho, consider taking refuge with the Mormon Church.
\nEastern Washington, rural Oregon, and Northern Idaho have well-developed alternative government structures already. Even in places where \u201coh those guys, but they don\u2019t run things around here\u201d, the people who \u201cdo\u201d have strong professional networks, those guys have guns and training and can press that advantage. Spokane, Kalispell, Whitefish, Sandpoint, even at extremes Missoula and Bend may not be secure.
\nPlan ahead. This is important. Reblog freely.
\nall those place names sound made up
\nThey are, just not by OP.
\nWhat, if anything, would clamp down on the insanity?
\nBecause the response is deeply disconnected from what AntiFa is, and not even on a moral level but just on a basic what do people who call themselves AntiFa do and where do they go level. The idea of an transnational AntiFa preparing to assault the hinterlands is just not a thing that\u2019s happening.
\nFrankly, even the idea of Portland as being caught in the grip of authoritarian AntiFa soldiers isn\u2019t real either.
\nI\u2019m not sure how you restore some level of sanity to the country.
\nViolence has already declined a great deal, and now most locations are seeing purely peaceful protests. And Fox News can\u2019t keep running the same riot footage over and over again forever.
\nSo the mythical Agents of Antifa aren\u2019t going to invade the hinterlands of the Northwest, and the rural residents will eventually figure that out, and then some new bullshit thing will come along, probably to do with the election or North Korea or whatever. Sanity won\u2019t be restored, but the lunacy will at least blunder off into a different and hopefully less bloody direction.
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I am honestly baffled by the “nothing to see here, folks” tone \u2013 the Portland central courthouse is seiged every night and if it falls we’ll have a Batman-ass jailbreak; in Seattle there is territory held by anti-government forces.
And they aren’t calling in the national guard, they aren’t running raids to roll up leaders on incitement charges, they’re just gamely trying to hold it off day after day until, with Seattle, they fail. And then the locals are like “golly gosh, it sure is easier around here since we stopped trying to keep the anarchists from taking over”. It’s not unreasonable to see that as the cities falling!
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