We’ve been going over popular support in secession/resistance/revolution movements, and I’ve received a few questions about how we build popular support, specifically from within the American Redoubt. (This would apply equally to the Appalachian Redoubt, the Republic of Texas, and any other areas.) There is a way forward!
The bad news is that we’re largely at the mercy of the failures of someone else, but the good news is that ‘someone else’ is the federal regime!
LTC Frederick Wilkins, USA (Ret.) explains the causation:
When there are no economic and political foundations for the guerrilla movement, there will be no guerrilla movement. The bulk of any guerrilla movement joins out of belief in what it is doing; the hard core of leaders keeps going because of political beliefs… If the great mass of the population knows it will be protected by a strong, just government, it has no reason to cooperate with the guerrillas, and the system of intelligence and supply that sustains all guerrilla movements break down.
Let’s break down this statement into two factors: economic foundations and political foundations. The rest of this quote is nuanced and explanatory. Both guerrilla and secession movements are political movements, and we may as well substitute “secession movements” for “guerrilla movements”.
So on one hand, as it’s been pointed out elsewhere, the federal regime is perhaps the greatest recruiting tool we have. Just as in Iraq and Afghanistan, any misstep — legitimate or perceived — by US/Coalition Forces, was exploited by insurgent/extremist groups into a cause to recruit more fighters. By the code those people live, if a family member was killed (as the result of collateral damage in our case), then it more or less becomes the duty to avenge that death. The Sunnis and Shia alike are all about that revenge stuff, and the code of Pashtunwali (‘the way of the Pashtuns’) in Afghanistan promotes revenge as honorific.
My two questions for the Liberty/III% movement become:
