It’s fascinating how history plays out so frequently in the 20th Century with the traditionalist elements outnumbered and outgunned but better trained and disciplined than their socialist/Communists counterparts. It speaks to their respective mentalities and visions of life: independent excellence or mediocre masses. To borrow from StarC…
It’s fascinating how history plays out so frequently in the 20th Century with the traditionalist elements outnumbered and outgunned but better trained and disciplined than their socialist/Communists counterparts. It speaks to their respective mentalities and visions of life: independent excellence or mediocre masses. To borrow from StarCraft, it is a battle between the Protoss noble, standing for glory even if alone, while the Zergs seek to form a blob covering the entire Earth with the sheer weight of their mediocrity. Look at Rhodesia Bush Wars, Finnish Civil War, Russian War between the Whites and the Reds. Ultimately, if the smaller number of traditionalists can make a decisive victory early on like in Finland, then they can intimidate the greater numbers. However, if it drags on, then the sheer weight of numbers, lower morale and outside forces resupplying the socialists will win over like Rhodesia.
Or contemporarily, compare the Seattle strike and riots that were immediately dealt with by Mayor Ole Hanson who mobilized his forces quickly like you mentioned before and the Summer of Floyd that continued seemingly indefinitely because it was not stopped quickly (but then faded away after Kenosha). This historical imbalance between numbers/weapons of the Right and the Left has made the US such a challenge for these revolutionary types. The traditionalists in America are the ones armed to the teeth and can’t be wiped out as they have been elsewhere.
It’s fascinating how history plays out so frequently in the 20th Century with the traditionalist elements outnumbered and outgunned but better trained and disciplined than their socialist/Communists counterparts. It speaks to their respective mentalities and visions of life: independent excellence or mediocre masses. To borrow from StarCraft, it is a battle between the Protoss noble, standing for glory even if alone, while the Zergs seek to form a blob covering the entire Earth with the sheer weight of their mediocrity. Look at Rhodesia Bush Wars, Finnish Civil War, Russian War between the Whites and the Reds. Ultimately, if the smaller number of traditionalists can make a decisive victory early on like in Finland, then they can intimidate the greater numbers. However, if it drags on, then the sheer weight of numbers, lower morale and outside forces resupplying the socialists will win over like Rhodesia.
Or contemporarily, compare the Seattle strike and riots that were immediately dealt with by Mayor Ole Hanson who mobilized his forces quickly like you mentioned before and the Summer of Floyd that continued seemingly indefinitely because it was not stopped quickly (but then faded away after Kenosha). This historical imbalance between numbers/weapons of the Right and the Left has made the US such a challenge for these revolutionary types. The traditionalists in America are the ones armed to the teeth and can’t be wiped out as they have been elsewhere.