by ericmay | 2025-10-28 19:28:55+00:00
> But your original arguments was that J6 was evidence that a few people with guns could have taken over the entire federal government and that the full force of even local SWAT couldn’t have intervened.

I don't think that's really what my argument was, and things are getting convoluted here. Happy to clarify to the best of my ability.

What was written that I responded to was:

> Can you actually come up with a scenario where a few yokels in the south running around the field playing militia could overthrow the US government?

My point was look at what a few yokels did on January 6th, and they weren't even armed with weapons and frankly I don't think 80% of them even thought they'd get in the building and do the damage that they did do. For many of those folks they found themselves almost in an accidental insurrection.

Can local SWAT open up fire with machine guns and gun all those people down (especially without weapons)? Sure they can. But that's crossing one hell of a Rubicon and not the standard operating procedure for this kind of stuff. Instead of gunning people down they wait until things cool off and then arrest people 1 by 1.

> What Democratic candidate is saying we should be a “communist country”?

As I already explained you don't have to say "we should be a communist country" - instead you can just espouse communism views or other harmful views with various twists of language. You know that's true because MAGA does it.

You don't have to be a candidate for office either, you just need to have influence. That's an arbitrary requirement you made up.

Again, separating out Democrats from Progressives, you can find various instances of folks advocating for things like nationalization of industries, "equity", and so forth. I don't need to provide a specific example because there's no point - what does that accomplish? If I provide an example of a Progressive arguing for communism or communist ideology (whether explicit or implicit) what does that change?

If I find a single example of a Progressive politician arguing for communism or specific features of communist ideology what does that change? Are you going to reply "I was wrong"? It's just arguing for arguing sake.

Bigger picture, I'm not sure why you're so hung up on this. Communism and its ill effects are just one of many things that you can find Progressives arguing in favor of, similar to things like Open Borders. Those policies are unpopular for a good reason, hence Trump and Republicans won the election and Trump got more votes than he did last time. The reason Democrats are losing is because Progressive ideology and frankly I don't care what we really call it (socialism, communism, whatever it's just one big basket of deplorable ideas) is unpopular with Americans and the votes continue to prove that out. I'm pointing this out as someone who is independent and quite frankly votes Democrat most of the time. You don't have to agree with my assessment, but you can look at the election results and see for yourself that I'm right. If the Democrats don't drop this nonsense they'll continue to lose elections because for most people (not me necessarily) MAGA is a preferable alternative to Progressive and I don't see that changing anytime soon unless Trump is out of the picture.