I realize there is a lot of hate for the Constitution and for good reason. But if the problem isn't framed to restore the Constitution then a favorable outcome is very less certain.
Silver is asking what will Oath-Keepers do, what else can they do except keep on message? To me that message is the real revolutionaries and usurpers are the present government.
The future battle space has to be sharply defined. People won't understand anything else.
Indeed, the revolution "within the form" of the present government and its antecedent was remarkably successful, so much so, that they've managed to usurp all the power to themselves by either wealth or stealth. Violence is only rarely needed. People side with the tyrants despite suffering under their yoke. They cannot comprehend anything other than the current paradigm. The usurpers have been so incredibly successful that one cannot but commend them on their remarkable tactics. Contrary to Ayn Rand's philosophical stance, the tyrants actually
won "the war against the mind of man." Look around. Those who try to think critically, logically and creatively are a rarity, even today in the age of the internet, where successful attempts at such can be easily shared with others and thus won't die off in a cave with the hermit who thought them up.
I say this because, as I see it, the battlespace will be sharply defined for those of us who think. When things go to their logical conclusion (may be years, may be decades, may be days, nobody knows for sure) the tyrants, due to their fantastic usurpation of education, partly due to the glorification of obedience by both religious folks and atheists, will not be without a shortage of leading psychopaths and following psychopaths. Psychopathy, far from being rightfully extirpated, is enhanced and backed up by government. For that particular pathology of murder and generally (but thoroughly sanctioned) psychotic mindset, there is nothing more joyful than ruining someone else's day or controlling someone else. They get high off of it. I've met it, I've chatted with it, and I've been made sick by my exposure to it, and at times, I worried I would develop it if around it too long (thankfully its been supposedly discovered that psychopathy is an inborn behavior, either by birth or by years of abusive/broken home upbringing, both of which I appear to lack.) Having been around these, however, I pick up on these things in conversation, I pick up on changes in attitude, I pick up on hidden cues. Maybe I spent too much time amongst the former soviets in my early formative years, and too much time on the east coast for the last of my formative years, but I have developed the ability to smell out a rat much more so than folks out here in the hinterlands. As such, I can smell a psycho within a few hours of conversation. I run into a lot of combat vets and army types, some of whom are tortured by their remorse for some of the evil crap they did, and some who are joyful by how many folks they killed or otherwise injured on behalf of whatever their excuse was.
Their excuses vary, but their joy at ruining someone else's day and "winning" at it is impossible for them to mask.Sucks to be them and I would sympathize, I would even offer to help them. However, within short order, their archist control freakish streaks become visible. And this will continue to exist, until people take responsibility for their own safety, instead of annointing the control freaks and psychos to do their fighting for them. Don't forget that more than a fair share of these are people who took great joy in killing others on orders and for no other reason. Some tried to rationalize that "God told them to do it" or that "my country right or wrong" or whatnot. In reality, they were simply being evil bastards, whether by willful gullibility or outright willful evil.
Until people change... nothing changes.And for the Christians or outright "religious" folks amongst us... remember this line... I didn't memorize the verse, but here it is in its English iteration I learned as a kid:
"Your faith has healed you. Now go,
and sin no more."
God might forgive you, but until you quit being an evil bastard, that forgiveness is temporary. (Nobody says you can't make mistakes, but making mistakes is one thing, being a corrupt, murderous evil bastard is another. Take Samuel's sons, "who didn't walk in Samuel's ways, and took bribes and rendered false judgments" in what is probably the single most scathing anti government passage in written history, where God tells Samuel that the Israelites shall be thoroughly punished for their stupidity, by getting the king they desired.) (Note: we aren't arguing accuracy of "god told" or "anecdotal evidence or hearsay" or whatever, the point is, the story is ACCURATE and OLD.)
Everyone says forgiveness. Everyone demands punishment. Everyone claims to want "justice," yet few amongst the mainstream remember or even
accept the fact that the point of much of the old customary laws were to A, make the victim whole (restitution) and B, correction of wrongful behavior so as to maintain peace and contentedness within the local social group, be it tribe, hamlet, early encampment or whatever. Punishment was simply for uncorrectable errors where restitution was impossible (murder, etc.) It wasn't until the later "kings" (government/bandits) that punishment and official robbery (taxation) became the norm, and restitution and correction stopped.
Now, I'm not saying and nobody else is, that those early societies were panaceas of freedom, but some of their concepts have been corrupted much as the "spare the rod, spoil the child" axiom has been. Shepherds do not beat their sheep. They correct them. However, ask a Baptist what that means. Punishment is the norm, correction by coercion, not by logic or gentleness. Until we learn to behave that way, as in,
STOP DOING EVIL SHIT... all that forgiveness stuff, all the prayers, all the tithing, all that is merely empty form.
I commend the folks at oath keepers, since they've got a hard fight and they're trying to ameliorate the evil. Is it a drop in a bucket? Possibly. But sometimes a single drop overflows the bucket if its full enough. And I'm seeing gradual changes in attitudes especially out here in the hinterlands, where overrreaching bastards are pushing hard... it sure will be Chinese interesting in time.
Just hope we've all got time to get ready "enough" for it and that we survive it to make a real difference on the other side.