Shadow People

The ones we should beware of:

Think about this for a moment. A shadow government -- the very notion of it infers a claim to legitimacy. What Tim Walz mentions would be a sort of stay-at-home government in exile, a government in opposition to the legitimate government chosen by the voters. In the nature of such things, it would be peopled by radicals, people willing to use civil unrest, people who are so convinced of their righteousness that any action is on the table - like the people attacking Tesla drivers, like the people who are rioting and seizing buildings on college campuses, like the people who burned buildings, attacked cops and destroyed small businesses in the 2020 "Summer of Love" riots. It would be only a matter of time before these people, convinced of the rightness of their cause, convinced by a near-religious righteousness, would begin to see themselves not as a shadow government, but as the legitimate government, despite all evidence to the contrary - like an election. That's when they take to the streets, in an actual act of insurrection. What happens then? Will the civil authorities in the largely Democrat-controlled major cities stand back as they did in the summer of 2020? Sooner or later, unless local officials and law enforcement do something to rein these troublemakers in, the citizenry will grow frustrated enough to start making other arrangements. What if some informal armed security groups start springing up along the lines of the Roman vigiles? You know, the informal watchmen in old Rome, from whom we derive the modern term “vigilante”? And where, I ask you, does that lead?

Who watches the watchers, indeed...