theorganicprepper | Does that stuff look familiar? It should because we’re more than three-quarters of the way through this escalation.
The thing that makes this technique so effective is that the causes
themselves are not unjust. They are things that would rightly anger any
reasonable, compassionate human being.
Most white people don’t want to see people of other races suffer
indignities and violence based on the color of their skin. (I say “most”
because there are always outliers and extremists.) Most Americans in
general do not want to see police brutality. They don’t want to see
families split up or people imprisoned for decades for victimless
crimes.
Let me be perfectly clear when I say that it is not unreasonable or
wrong to be outraged and want things to change. I hate some of the
things I’ve seen our government and police officers do and have written
about these misdeeds for years.
But this article isn’t about whether or not our anger is justified. It is an assessment of a playbook.
All of this outrage over injustice forms the foundation of something
that can be used against us. The agitation has been building up for
years – far longer than President Trump has been in office – so as much
as people love to hate him, he isn’t the cause of all this. But he’s
certainly not making things go any more smoothly.
Everything I’m writing about today is about how our government in the
past has encouraged a resistance in other countries, and how a
resistance is being nurtured here in the United States right now.
So what does it take to cause people to be angry enough to resist?
Resistance generally begins with the desire of individuals to remove intolerable conditions imposed by an unpopular regime or occupying power. Feelings of opposition toward the governing authority and hatred of existing conditions that conflict with the individual’s values, interests, aspirations, and way of life spread from the individual to his family, close friends, and neighbors. As a result, an entire community may possess an obsessive hatred for the established authority. Initially, this hatred will manifest as sporadic, spontaneous nonviolent and violent acts of resistance by the people toward authority. As the discontent grows, natural leaders, such as former military personnel, clergymen, local office holders, and neighborhood representatives, emerge to channel this discontent into organized resistance that promotes its growth. The population must believe they have nothing to lose, or more to gain. (source)
There can be more than one resistance going on at a time, too.
Currently, everything that is in the news is about the resistance that
has sprung up over the death of George Floyd. A few months ago, it was about the sanctuary cities in Virginia standing up against state legislators.
Resistance organizations have been around for years: Black Lives
Matter, the NRA, Antifa, the Boogaloo movement, the Black Bloc, the Gun
Owners of America. I’m just listing off examples of organizations here,
not passing judgment whether they’re good or bad. I’ll bet that most
people who join do so because of their own deeply held beliefs. They
sincerely feel they’re doing the right thing and have the best of
intentions.
