I personally don’t think there’s enough cohesion among the domestic arms of the state to enact martial law. There’s only enough cohesion to terrorize people who are already deemed undesirable or invisible. Formal military control of everyday life would probably flop because it requires actually doing something and maintaining a disciplined state apparatus.
Our current state apparatus can’t even do a military parade. The only thing they know how to do domestically is perform brutish, cheap, and quick raids. It’s an administration of lazy idiots who all hate one another and are all trying to sabotage the other not because of political aspirations, but because they want to be on podcasts.
Maybe I could be wrong but we’ve already seen riots during a Trump admin, in 2020, and the best they were able to muster were some scattered and undisciplined BORTAC squads who only seemed to know how to chuck tear gas indiscriminately and shoot dogs. And I’m supposed to believe those same guys, with the same leadership structure and training, are supposed to become a permanent domestic occupation? Like what, doing checkpoints on roads or coordinated raids? Controlling the news media? I guess I can’t see it
What dispelled the 2020 riots weren’t civilian fears of inhaling tear gas or getting a shield to the face. What dispelled it was the promise of electoral liberalism, which is always what the American state tries to offer (note it does not offer this to the undesirable/invisible class).
I personally don’t think there’s enough cohesion among the domestic arms of the state to enact martial law. There’s only enough cohesion to terrorize people who are already deemed undesirable or invisible. Formal military control of everyday life would probably flop because it requires actually doing something and maintaining a disciplined state apparatus.
Our current state apparatus can’t even do a military parade. The only thing they know how to do domestically is perform brutish, cheap, and quick raids. It’s an administration of lazy idiots who all hate one another and are all trying to sabotage the other not because of political aspirations, but because they want to be on podcasts.
Maybe I could be wrong but we’ve already seen riots during a Trump admin, in 2020, and the best they were able to muster were some scattered and undisciplined BORTAC squads who only seemed to know how to chuck tear gas indiscriminately and shoot dogs. And I’m supposed to believe those same guys, with the same leadership structure and training, are supposed to become a permanent domestic occupation? Like what, doing checkpoints on roads or coordinated raids? Controlling the news media? I guess I can’t see it
What dispelled the 2020 riots weren’t civilian fears of inhaling tear gas or getting a shield to the face. What dispelled it was the promise of electoral liberalism, which is always what the American state tries to offer (note it does not offer this to the undesirable/invisible class).