Cowboy wisdom, it would not be our problem

History will repeat itself if you don't stand up to tyranny when they come for your guns...

We live in a nation where the people in the highest offices in this land call us names like" deplorable, Christian extremist, white supremist, MAGA and others in power accuse people that do not blindly surrender to their agenda as traitors and demand our blood, why should we defend them? Could any invading Army treat us worse? The bottom line is simple, pushed hard enough America will one day find out that I am right, they will start a war and none of us will fight it. Oh, we would defend our town and our homes but little else. We do not live in major cities, everything we need to survive a war we already have, or it is close by. We could follow the Somali and Afghan model, let the war crash around us and only help either side when we have no other choice. You do not have to be part of the 3% that defend the people that start all the drama.

It is a large country, the odds are better outside the cities.

. . .or take out the winning side if need be.

It wouldn't be necessary for at least a generation, we are the farmers, truckers, the blue-collar types will be needed no matter who wins. History shows the tyrants purge the educated not the actual producers.

Stalin has entered the chat... His farmers were not armed though, so your statement stands. Lord help those few good people left in cities. It will not be pleasant for them.