So, lets say we get to August or some summer month, and 4,000,000 people are protesting right out front the white house.

Do they send in the tanks? Do they kill 1,000,000 people? Would republican civilians see empathy for the dead americans who were democrats? Or would it unite the nation like 9/11 did, except this time against the government?

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    Do they send in the tanks?

    You don’t use tanks in a city. You use machine guns.

    Do they kill 1,000,000 people?

    If they can, probably

    Would republican civilians see empathy for the dead americans who were democrats?

    Ask yourself how many people in the US showed empathy for the Gazans.

    Or would it unite the nation like 9/11 did, except this time against the government?

    Lol no, the US is a terminally propagandised country. Iraq has WMDs, Venezuela has drugs, free healthcare is bad somehow, Israel is not genociding the Palestinians, etc. etc.

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      Free healthcare is bad because of taxes.

      Idk why Americans are culturally allergic to paying taxes.

      I can only assume it stems from the revolutionary motto of “No taxation without representation”, which permanently affixed the idea in everyone’s head that taxes were inherently bad.

      And nobody within a 30 mile radius of me understands how a fucking tax bracket works. /Hyperbole

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      If you really wanted to use the military, you would just drop anti personnel cluster bombs. That would do any crowd in.