America's Civil War Is Already Here: Their Five-Point Strategy to Overwhelm Resistance
Scattered resistance fails when facing coordinated authoritarian strategy.
TL;DR
Militarize dissent so any protest becomes a pretext for force.
Manufacture economic desperation so individuals can’t risk resistance.
Rig elections while the public is busy surviving.
Deploy surveillance before anyone can regulate it.
Shatter social coalitions so no one can organize.
America is already in a civil war — just not the kind we pictured. No battle lines. No uniforms. No surrender ceremonies. Instead, it’s fought in parallel tracks: five converging crises and one perpetual distraction, engineered to make resistance impossible.
This isn’t a grab bag of random bad policies. It’s the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 playbook in motion: synchronized pressure points designed to keep the population too desperate, confused, and divided to mount a serious challenge. When multiple crises hit at once, people shift from political engagement to basic survival. Each pressure point strengthens the others, locking the country into a feedback loop where authoritarian control grows and democratic opposition fades.
The regime has been on this path since before the election, and they’re not showing any signs of slowing down. This is the continuation of “Shock & Awe”.
Crisis Point 1: Militarization of Dissent
The target has shifted from "immigrants" to Americans.
The Los Angeles National Guard deployment wasn’t about immigration. It was a beta test for domestic military control. In D.C., when DOGE staffer Edward “Big Balls” Coristine was allegedly assaulted, Trump invoked Section 740 of the D.C. Home Rule Act to seize control of local police for 30 days. He instantly bypassed Mayor Bowser and sidelined the available evidence.
The sequence is deliberate: LA to D.C., then public hints at Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore as next in line. “We have other cities also that are bad. Very bad,” Trump said. All that the regime needs is a conduit to assert their control.
For instance, any future protest can now be rebranded as “civil unrest” and met with rapid deployment. The regime is creating the infrastructure for suppressing resistance before it forms. Any future protest can be labeled "civil unrest" and met with military force. Evidence is no longer required; Trump just needs to perceive people as "unruly", and the Pentagon will deploy its “Domestic Civil Disturbance Quick Reaction Force." A special unit of 600 troops on standby at all times, ready to deploy in as little as one hour.
Crisis Point 2: Economic Desperation as Control
While militarization suppresses organized resistance, economic pressure ensures people are too desperate to resist individually.
Tariffs aren’t an accidental measure. The regime knows full and well that tariffs are paid by American consumers, not foreign countries. Tariffs are systematically destroying our purchasing power, devaluing the dollar. Combined with "One Big Beautiful Bill" and continued automation-driven layoffs and reorganization, the regime is manufacturing financial desperation. This is an effort of duality. AI and automation happened to come at the most opportune time for the regime to increase the speed of its efforts.
With the average tariff rate now at 18.6%, the highest since 1933, households are losing roughly $2,400 a year in 2025 dollars. Shoes and apparel are up 38%, new cars up by 12.4%, basic food imports up by 3.2%. Then add the average sale price of a home in the US at $410,800, according to Fred (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Luis), and a population worried about rent and groceries, and insurance fineprint that does not allow you to participate in protests, doesn't have the bandwidth for adequate and peaceful political resistance.
When you can't afford to miss work or to get hurt during a protest, you can't afford to protest long term or by taking physical risks. When you're financially desperate, you accept authoritarian "solutions" that promise economic relief, even if the relief never arrives. At times, just mere assurance is enough to get us through to the next day of worrying.
Crisis Point 3: Electoral Manipulation While People Are Distracted
While the public focuses on economic survival and military deployments, the regime is systematically dismantling electoral democracy.
Gerrymandering efforts are accelerating in Texas and other states to ensure a midterm MAGA victory. Texas is not flying under the radar. The media and Greg Abbott see to that. What is flying under the radar, though, is that SCOTUS is preparing to hear Callais v. Landry again, likely ending voting rights protections.
The regime is building a permanent electoral advantage, supported by a corrupt Supreme Court of the United States, while the population is overwhelmed by immediate crises.
By 2026, if they maintain control through manipulation, any unfavorable election results will be rejected. By 2028, they won't need to manipulate elections. They'll simply refuse to accept losses with republican states refusing to certify the election, and complete the transition to open dictatorship.
Crisis Point 4: AI Surveillance Infrastructure Without Oversight
While Congress debates AI regulation, the regime is building an unregulated surveillance infrastructure that will make future resistance impossible.
Although the proposed 10-year moratorium on state and local AI regulations was removed from the Senate bill, federal oversight on how AI develops, remains minimal. Simultaneously, the regime is laser focused on accumulating as much data as possible, creating an actionable docket on every person living in or visiting the United States. The dictatorial desire for complete surveillance creates a lucrative business opportunity for Palantir. Instead of creating stronger privacy laws, the regime is hell bent, since the overturning of Roe, to reduce privacy. Watch Congresswoman Lori Trahan, who’s addressing the issue.
While Trahan and others are fighting to preserve our privacy, the regime is steadfastly moving forward. They will deploy AI surveillance while the population is distracted by economic and military crises. By the time people recognize the threat, the infrastructure is operational, and resistance becomes almost impossible to organize in public.
Crisis Point 5: Social Fragmentation to Prevent Coalition Building
Authoritarianism thrives when opposition groups are isolated. The regime is using both domestic and foreign policy to split the base of potential resistance.
Foreign: Continued support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza, refusal to recognize Palestinian statehood, and friendly hosting of dictators deepen cultural and political rifts at home.
Domestic: Revival of the Comstock Act to ban contraception, plans to overturn Obergefell (same-sex marriage), legal challenges to erode voting rights (Callais v. Landry), and rulings like Johnson v. Grants Pass to criminalize homelessness.
Each move is a wedge. They deliberately target workers, LGBTQ+ communities, women, religious minorities, students, the disabled, the elderly, and the unhoused divided into their respective struggles. Opposting to MAGA, which moves mostly in unity, when every group fights alone for basic rights and survival, there’s no bandwidth to coordinate broader resistance. Fragmentation is not a side effect, it’s the intended consequence of the regime’s follow through of Project 2025’s blueprint.
Crisis Point 6: (Inverse) Distractions
The unreleased Epstein files matter, but not as much as what’s happening while we’re waiting for them.
We already know Trump’s connections to Epstein and Maxwell. Seeing it in black-and-white will only confirm what’s public record. The real danger is the inverse distraction: every major authoritarian move gets waved off as “just a distraction from the Epstein list.” That framing turns the list into a decoy, minimizing the urgency of real-time destruction of democracy.
By over-focusing on its release, we risk letting the regime use the files as a shield while it accelerates toward open fascism.
The Effect: Overwhelming Resistance Through System Overload While Maintaining Distraction Points
None of these crises alone would be sufficient to establish permanent authoritarian control, although some have more gravitas than others. However, together, they create system overload:
Military pressure suppresses organized protest
Economic pressure prevents individual resistance
Electoral manipulation removes democratic solutions
Surveillance infrastructure makes coordination impossible
Social fragmentation prevents coalition building
Distraction mechanism to minimize the impacts of 1-5
The result: A population too overwhelmed to mount effective resistance, facing crises on too many fronts to organize coherent opposition.
Shock and Awe. The regime wins through convergence. They are deploying war strategies upon the American people. Multiple simultaneous attacks prevent focused resistance. In effect, the regime’s plan is working exactly as designed in Project 2025.
They are working quickly, disciplined, and with foresight. Certainly, they have the occasional bump in the road, but the train to fascism is well at operational speed, and presently, there is no organized way to stop them.
It’s not farfetched to conclude that the United States are already entrenched in a civil war - it just doesn’t look like we expected it to, yet.
Why External Rescue Is Impossible
No foreign intervention is coming to save American democracy. The U.S. military remains the world's most powerful force, protected by geography (two oceans, defensible borders) and nuclear deterrence.
More importantly, other democracies are watching American fascism with strategic interest. Some hope it fails, others are taking notes for their own authoritarian projects. Most importantly for us to understand, is that no one will sacrifice their own people to restore American democracy.
The road to fascism succeeds because it makes external intervention impossible while making internal resistance appear futile.
The Reset Requirement
Here's what we have to come to terms with: Convergence tactics work until the system completely collapses under its own contradictions. The collapse, however, is marred by many innocent American lives lost.
The regime can maintain control through suppressive crisis management, but they can't actually solve the crises they're creating. Economic desperation eventually reaches tipping points, while Military occupation creates resistance. In that, they will create the perfect storm. Presently and in the future, their attempt to get ahead of the storm will be through enhanced surveillance and task-force style silencing of the American people. This is where Palantir, and a few others, will provide the data, including full dockets on all Americans, for the regime’s measures. However, surveillance infrastructure requires functional infrastructure, and once the people rise, the infrastructure will fall.
The question isn't whether this system survives. Long term, it won't. No oppressive system ever has. The question is whether democratic institutions survive the collapse, or whether we get cycles of authoritarianism until external pressures (climate change, automation displacement, resource scarcity) force systemic evolution.
Like any regime that came before, their strategy contains the seeds of its own destruction. But the cost of that destruction, whether measured in lives lost, institutions destroyed, and social fabric burned beyond recognition, depends on how long we allow it to continue.
The exit question is: When will it be enough?
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All undoubtedly true. The one subtlety you miss is that this is the first time in history that fascist dictatorship has arisen in the most material well off society.
A self-preservation reflex to the 5 point strategy is to just ease back into the cossetted lifestyle that y'all have become so accustomed to.
A true first in the litany of AUTHORITARIAN DISASTER.
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The weakness of democracy lies in voters ignoring the importance of selecting virtuous leaders
I thought I was a paid subscriber. I'll fix that as I read all of your posts.
I'd like to take a moment to write a few thoughts, that plague me, about some of the hindsight you just wrote about.
Sorry, in advance, for my sometimes, really bad grammar or I lose my thoughts, which still may seem incoherent.
I'm no lawyer, scholar, or historian.
I'm your average run of the mill, head down, read, listen, try to understand, the various issues with their nuances, over the last decade, and always return to my own question of, why don't we flood the zone in return?
He can't handle any critiquing so why not critique? I find it interesting that Jasmine Crockett is being redistricted out of her own district because, in my opinion, Trump is that sour about a smart mouthy black woman who says it as it should be said and he responds weakly but not nearly as some others. Why is that?
We make some things far more difficult while missing the daily ops to antagonize at any cost.
This is why we don't negotiate with terrorists. Why the capitulation? A large bug, like the cockroach king, Rogan, would take him out verbally but we cower.
Let me explain:
Not to drone on about the immunity decision but that is, technically, after 5 decades, when we lost our constitution, the rule of law and no one has challenged its lengthy list of critical points, missed, erred, in such enormity that it blinds me.
What the SCOTUS did was change the Constitution without authority, not interpret any precedent, reverse a precedent, interpret a statute, decide something on merit, as there are none, to create this "law" that needs a side chosen, in theory, as again, they haven't the authority.
The side the SCOTUS fails on is whether their majority opinion, is pro-living constitution or pro-non-living constitution/common law.
Either way what they did is not close, from here to Musk's Mars, away from a complete and thorough job of detailing the reasoning to conclusion as if it were adaptive or dead letter, even having authority.
What was been provided, never remanded, never held on merits, I want to know how to redress this, as a new Amendment is certainly not necessary.
Last I checked it isn't against the law, as there is no law, SCOTUS lacks that authority, that bars the POTUS from current prosecution, on a new case, to reopen, differently, to throw back not only the narrative but actually hold SCOTUS 6 to a level of scrutiny only these times, perhaps, demand.
Now, who TF is willing to undertake that as that would be a substantial backward step for the entire machinery and time consuming and no distraction but actual redress for We The People and the fiduciary duties they breach/have breached.
Who TF is going to sue for any voting rights violations if the non-independent DOJ, is working to hunt down a cartel, sipping whiskey, while smoking a cuban, and blabbing about D.C. and crypto schemes or crime all while having inserted their heads up the asshole's ass?
When was it decided that the DOJ is his DOJ?
Can the SCOTUS explain, individual will, take care to execute the laws faithfully, while outwardly breaking them, and nobody is above the law, and what actually TF they feel is necessary action, as he crimes through our lives?
The actual ruling on allowability to prosecute, is theirs, as the ruling states. Do they wait until the smoldering is all that's left?
If the Congress and the SCOTUS would grow their balls and vaginas back they lost, to losing their virginity to a 79 year old psychopath, we perhaps, could give Dick Durbin a job, a law firm wishing to make history and stop some of the things in the meantime. Slow them down.
Fuck the shadow docket, excuse me, as in novel times, we can't bring a stick and a bag of marshmallows but a loaded cannon, just not the same one as the sloth in FL, and prepare to fire.
Don't accept "norms" from the SCOTUS, as Alito barks, anymore than all the norms broken by these broken people addled with drugs and liquor, while gutting our lives.
Is any of what was done by drug addled people enforceable by law/legal? FUCK THAT.
Everything is extortion over DEI/Antisemistism, right? Authoritarian/Yarvin/Theil style.
Why, then, is no one talking about his cabinet and many admin going to Capitol Ministries prayer/bible sessions, on secular government grounds, learning the biggest antisemitic trope of all "JEWS KILLED JESUS"?
I'd say that doesn't align with his POLICIES whatever TF they may be.
Or with "power grabbing", those fkn sorry ass two words, to "remake" another word doozy, the government in "his image". WTAF? Is he Versace? The Oval is Tacky and the Rose Garden I weep for.
Russell Vought losses more bodily fluid in his endless drawer of tube socks as he terrorizes the civil workforce before he can replace them with other CN freaks, pervs, and pedos.
But the Dems, just own them, as that makes for his anti-woke release that much better.
Again, I have not a clue who would sue for, say breach of fiduciary duty, as it isn't linguistically in the constitution but nowhere is being a criminal to be a KING either.
Just look back to civics 101, the Fed papers, and that's where Roberts needs hounded like an escapee from Alligator Alcatraz. I feel as if we are overlooking something like the saying "can't see the forest for the trees".
We know their souls are sold. Ours aren't. Someone is out there and I'll find them if I have to crawl through the GD Everglades to find them.
I have heard no one speak of the billion in Medicaid cuts being equal to what Trump has taken or diverted from the DOD to fix up his pet project of the Qatar violation of the same billion.
Would anyone find value in that when the dipshit doesn't have a mandate and never did?
Why is Vought being sued as he wanted to take down the OMB website mandated by Congress so people know how their taxes and other revenue is used?
I know, but we aren't saying it.
Stephen Miller is suing Roberts, personally, for Article 2 sec 2 powers that he feels justified in stating no one can check Trump, period.
I disagree. We certainly have a class but that's way above me.
I could go on for days.
Reality is, yup, everything you said is correct.
Reality is, also, what wasn't said, and that's not your fault, or mine but those having the minority that aren't doing every last thing to throw sand in the child's eyes.
I don't give a shit about the razor wire Governor or Trump's Quid Pro Quo, on redistricting. Epstein. You get it.
I'm more pissed off we are letting an international criminal come to US soil so Trump can lick his ass, take some lap dance of victory and Zelensky goes to hell. This isn't just about GAZA as that war has been raging since the last Intifada that some claim is back in the early 2000's when actually it was 1948 if I'm to believe a scholar on the matter.
Bibi also won't come to the WEST to invade and possibly use nuclear weapons against ours with the help of China, Iran, and others, while burning Europe.
Trump is a fkn dope and so is Whitkoff, as he goes with no translator to negotiate, and knows no nuances, as they mock him, which is worse than the Taliban without Afghanistan's gov't and 4 years later, persecution and a refusal for asylum, to the very people Trump did this to by sticking his head up his ass where it doesn't belong and he'll never get the NOBLE Peace Prize.
He's killed more people than world wars combined. Innocent people who believed his BS back in 2015 or prior, to the present
He's interfered in the last three presidential elections. PERIOD.
Putin wants the WEST and if Ukraine fails Trump is handing him that ultimate win and our betrayal and our allies, but Putin knows that, Trump doesn't.
How does that work in FP with deference, that seemingly has no policy connection, as that's what mandate is, and policy for the interest of the people of the US not his self-dealing shit.
It is really hard to watch it unfold, with the guardrails being as cowardly and inept and in collusion with him, the Heritage, the lies, everything.
All the piety they think forgives their worldly sins against humanity and what, at least the SCOTUS did, go to law school, for fkn what?
So many of those non mandate issues, I sit wishing someone, would tell that to Charlie Kirk.
I'm a mess of every day people with no platform or license, or authority on much but I see holes like Swiss cheese in everything they do.
I sued a circuit court judge years ago. I learned a lot about the corrupt justice system and the slow moving parts. The judges working their asses off are the lower court judges only to be kicked by Robert's silence or lifts.
SCOTUS isn't going to do anything if it isn't demanded. If it is denied we keep demanding.
That is a BIG reason he's got so many enablers. Without that POS document which isn't worth the paper or pen used, but was, literally, deadly, with no recourse.
I have red lines as everyone does and that this isn't banged on daily I can't understand. NO NORMS. Hell, DOGE gets our info and still hasn't been determined a legal entity. I'd carjack BB too.
To do this, while breaching duty, as fiduciary, Constitution uses, care, faith, trust, linguistically, is actionable as they erred and aren't being challenged at ALL. NONE.
Failures or Swiss cheese holes.
Anyway, thanks for reading if you got this far. If you have any ideas let me, or someone, know, as I smirk to myself, as it is an ask that for JFC sake isn't normal but our marshmallows are about to melt off the stick!!
Your piece was spot as always. Thank you.
Peace. Be Safe.