I am not calling this election a "loss" by a long shot. It is exposing the betrayal, it is demonstrating the importance of the protest vote (if the protest vote had gone either way the election would have mattered), the winner "won" with less than 50% of the people who showed up to vote.

The speed with which Romney conceded the election also demonstrates the way he would have conceded other things as president. Weak willed and willing to compromise quickly instead of commit to conflict. We are definitely not talking Nixon qualities there. This guy was little more than a cardboard cutout of what some people thought a high level politician ought to look and sound like. Taking a substantive stand on much of anything? Eh, not him. Gingrich maybe, Buchannan definitely, Romney, nope. He was as wishy washy as they get. Study the polls do the political analysis come up with a position political formula stuff.

The role of the militias must be to define, establish and protect the enclaves and act as a demonstration of the superiority of original American values. Once the power of the militias falls to its own cronyism, then we are in trouble, because they could just as quickly become the "brown shirts" of another kind of dictatorship. Resistance operations may or may not even be connected to the militias, and militias may or may not act as auxilliaries to friendly government bodies, but realize that a constant challenge is over those groups getting hijacked by powers that are hostile to liberty.

I personally know of two groups in Oregon that got hijacked into doing spy work for Democrat aligned law enforcement and by extension, collaboration with the BATF against some resistance types who were smuggling weapons to good people in California. After years of none of those weapons turning up in crime scenes, the BATF took another direction and found other ways (with the assistance of the group that was made up mostly of military and law enforcement veterans) to take down some of the California leadership and their agents operating in Oregon. More recently I learned that one of the larger pro-gun organizations in Washington state is now openly collaborating with the BATF and elected an active state prosecutor to be either their head guy or one of their head guys. Then most of us know how Hollingsworth and his crews have jumped in bed with the FBI and were feeding so much information to the feds about ARM that even the feds started getting the strong impression that they were being fed false info and being used as tools by one militia group to take down another. We know that Hollingsworth and his people have reported against ARM leadership, but apparently never been invited to testify in court due to credibility issues.

This is a dicey situation even with local controls and enclaves because those can quickly degrade into fiefdoms without a universally promoted system of core values governing how the various enclaves are "accredited" within the free enclave system. You folks and I know damn well that we can look at that election map and see a whole lot of unfree areas that are in red, so part of this also involves developing our own maps of free areas, and all of those need to be very very realistic since lives are at stake.