Which is why I sympathize with his breaking that law even though it was stupid of him to do it so brazenly.

And if we cared about the Constitution...

I've read too much about the apparatus of soviet control to not remember it when I see stories of state control

it was centrally planned and executed perfectly

this isn't conspiracy theory territory

it's ancient history

I don't think you're wrong in generalities, but I do think you are pattern-seeking and seeing ulterior motives where they don't necessarily pertain.

Sometimes things just happen.

i already said it could just be what it said it was

but every purge looked just like that as well

hundreds of public admissions of guilt

nearly every one of them a farce

Fair enough. Does your reading of history give you any ideas about how to prevent, forestall or circumvent such events?

no

I have yet to read a history where the other side stops it

Then what good is it even to warn about it?

for starters, because what he read about comes from people who saw it coming and got out

It can't be a literally unstoppable force.

Ah, so *escape* is the name of the game.

what we read about

typo

it doesn't always win, though

How can this pattern be so impossible to fight? How has a counterstrategy not developed if it keeps repeating?

plenty of cases of people fighting back and stopping it

but those people are seen as the bad guys

You just said that never happens.

the people who fight back and prevent the bad stuff happening dont get credit for stopping what never happened

Ok, but assuming one doesn't care about credit.

then its a hard roll

either you run and get proven right when it happens like you said it would

or you stop it first and become the villain

How does the Purge create this unshakeable field of apparent Goodness that is capable of successfully framing its opposition as villains?

Why does that work?

because it won?

its a big topic

No, you just said, even when it loses, it still manages to cast its enemy as evil.

How does that work?

countless american journos went there and said it was all good

It's important so I hope you'll bear with me.

ok im trying to pick up what youre putting down

ask again