There are plenty of vets and active military who have the "only people in the military should have guns" attitude, so don't just assume they'd all be on our side.
It will be up to the military, do they LIKE this sort of bullshit?
If not, I think the Dems will go from criticizing the “Military-Industrial Complex” to creating a “Armed Security Force-Industrial Complex” for the various government departments like the Department of Education and have them put down any rebellions they find if or especially when the police are too loyal to the people they live with to do it
There are plenty of vets and active military who have the "only people in the military should have guns" attitude, so don't just assume they'd all be on our side.
Good!2nd Amendment Sanctuary movement continues to grow
More than 90 governing bodies have now passed resolutions defending gun rights, and more votes are expected. And with the General Assembly session now just a few weeks away the momentum is building.www.wdbj7.com
Dissent grows to Virginia gun seizure.
From sanctuary cities for illegal migrants to sanctuary communities for gun holders. Fuckin a.
Yes, and you also have the DC overflow which is what led to it going blue.The latter can’t last long, they will be cut off from resources somehow
Say, is there a sort of Red VS Blue conflict in Virginia? Cities are Blue but the rest are Red, like Houston in Texas?
Yes, and you also have the DC overflow which is what led to it going blue.
The problem is the DC overflow is bureaucrats... good luck getting them to farm, mine or do anything else that is useful.Ever read The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress?
- Hypocrisy: Could qualify as Hypocritical Humor if one choose to take it as Black Comedy — Prof threatens to stop grain shipments to Terra, and Mannie narrates regarding Indian newspapers' reactions, "Gentlest proposal was to clean out Luna, exterminate us 'criminal troglodytes' and replace us with 'honest Hindu peasants' who understood sacredness of life and would ship grain and more grain." Later, after the kinetic bombardment kills a bunch of idiots who didn't stay out of the blast zones, "Indian government seemed as furious over fish as over fishermen—but principle of sacredness of life did not apply to us; they wanted our heads."
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress (1966) is a Science Fiction novel written by Robert A. Heinlein. It's notable for originating many sci-fi tropes, including a sentient computer, Colony Drop tactics, and virtual acting. The action is set in 2075-2076 …tvtropes.org
You can replace ao many Gun Loving and Freedom or Speech loving Virginians with a bunch of gun hating, “hate speech” hating “immigrants” who will do all the farming and mining now
The problem is the DC overflow is bureaucrats... good luck getting them to farm, mine or do anything else that is useful.
Unless the Democrats blink first to cause an uproar.The latter can’t last long, they will be cut off from resources somehow
Say, is there a sort of Red VS Blue conflict in Virginia? Cities are Blue but the rest are Red, like Houston in Texas?
Actually, quite a few of the Tidewater counties are passing these resolutions too. The primary distinction here is urban + inner suburban vs outer suburban + rural counties.And I'm pretty sure that the people who most strongly support these laws live in the eastern part of the state.
Virginia has three major urban/inner suburban regions. Richmond in the center, Norfolk in the south east, and the DC Suburbs in the north. These three regions tend to dominate State politics, and up until recently tended to be more balanced between the Rs and Ds.Say, is there a sort of Red VS Blue conflict in Virginia? Cities are Blue but the rest are Red, like Houston in Texas?
It's been a slow bleed here...and tragic to watch.
Actually, quite a few of the Tidewater counties are passing these resolutions too. The primary distinction here is urban + inner suburban vs outer suburban + rural counties.
It's also heavily built on minority voters being entirely behind Dems. Bear in mind, Virginia's demographics feature a much larger amounts of minorities than many places in the US.
Virginia has three major urban/inner suburban regions. Richmond in the center, Norfolk in the south east, and the DC Suburbs in the north. These three regions tend to dominate State politics, and up until recently tended to be more balanced between the Rs and Ds.
Richmond was always a D stronghold in the State, save for it's outer suburbs. It was the home of the historical Byrd machine after all. Norfolk has historically been fairly mixed, though leaning D. The region between Richmond and Norfolk is Virginia's "Black Belt" where there's a significant number of blacks, enough that there's multiple majority-minority districts there. However, that D influence was counterbalanced by the primary reason Norfolk is a big urban area: The US Naval Yards in Hampton Roads. As is typical, the military tended to be more R oriented and so there was some Rs coming from the SE.
Northern Virginia is where the most change has been. Historically speaking, NoVA was actually a major R stronghold outside of Arlington and Alexandria (basically two cities completely tied to DC) up until the 2000s, with Rs dominating Fairfax, Loudon, and Prince William counties. What government contractors that were located in Virginia in the 80s and 90s tended to be those involved in military contracting, which trended R, and there's quite a few military bases in NoVA which reinforced this.
With the combination of the tech boom (fun fact: NoVA has been a huge player in the development of the internet as we know it) and the massive growth of the Federal government post 9/11 and under Obama, you saw a LOT of people from out of state move into NoVA from the north east and California to work for the Federal Government or in support of the Federal Government. They settled in Virginia because it had cheaper real estate, lower taxes, and better schools than DC or Maryland did (due to Republican governance since the 80s), and proceeded to vote for Democrats and instead of being focused on Virginia politics, which ALWAYS has been more conservative than national, Virginia Dems prior to the 2000s were frequently noted to be VERY conservative Dems all told, they were focused on national politics and the much more liberal / progressive ideas there.
This lead to a continue bleed of blue out from DC into the NoVA suburbs. From Arlington and Alexandria, Fairfax systemically turned blue. Now it's spread out to Loudon and Prince William counties, which has caused the government to flip.
Oh, this is in part due to the Republicans being stupid in the post 2010 redistricting. Instead of drawing borders that best represented regional interests, the Virginia government instead drew districts meant to protect incumbents. This meant that in NoVA Prince William and Loudon county never really had representatives in Richmond, rather, their votes were sliced up between multiple districts in order to ensure that the incumbents (be they R or D) would have an easier time at reelection. Frequently for the Rs who were in Fairfax this meant grabbing up more and more of slices of Prince William or Loudon counties. Well, as population booms continued in NoVA, this made those holdings less and less tenable, and now you have districts with VERY different interest groups (the interests of exurban parts of Prince William County have jack shit to do with folks in the dense suburban central Fairfax county), but they're grouped together and, of course, the dense suburban regions are dominating the districts now.
This is all combined by a Republican party in Virginia that is either incompetent or malicious. They have frequently conflicted and undercut grassroots efforts in Virginia, tending to always side with the Chamber of Commerce / liberal Republican wing of things much to the consternation of the grassroots. Further, there's been a systemic effort to peel away right libertarian voters in state-wide elections by Democratic agents, with a right libertarian candidate being on almost every state-wide election ballot going back 10 years, usually funded by out of state money that when looked closely at tends to normally give to liberal democrats... and then these statewide races have frequently been settled by a handful of percentage points...
It's been a slow bleed here... and tragic to watch.
Honestly, I think an actual direct combat war will be the only way to really solve or show the divide between areas
It’s like Hong Kong, the Chinese Government won’t actually use military force when they have something less deadly but more effective, bringing people en masse who support their political agendas and making them the new voterbase of the area
The problem with democracy is that there can suddenly be new guys coming in to swing the vote
He's gonna take yer jebs!
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