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American Partisan
By NC Scount
October 28, 2020

There’s a common misconception in the Survivalist community. “I’ll retreat…get away from the major population centers…work to live off the grid…and let the urban hellholes rot.”

Well…about that.

Rural living is, for all intents and purposes, a better way to live. We’re more in tune with the natural world by and large, not in spite of it, and for the most part the lifestyle lends itself well to harder people used to doing without. And for people like me, there’s nothing that replaces the generations-deep connections to your homeland. The people there are your people- and in spite of differences, there is a deeply ingrained love of place. It is home.

Sounds good until the problems begin to bubble up. The first issue is questioning exactly how many in those rural areas are actually self-sufficient. That answer is probably few. And the rates of addiction and substance abuse is in turn shockingly high, correlated with the inevitable poverty rate. This was not by accident. The trailer-hood is a thing. Opioids were dumped on our population by Big Pharma, just as with the rise of decentralized meth manufacturing two decades earlier, and the crack epidemic which made its way into rural America just the same as the well-publicized urban epidemics during the 1990s. Home invasions and thefts are the norm.

No, not quite the retreat paradise the suburbanites had envisioned…is it?

Dusting off the old sociology coursework, I’d argue rather convincingly that this creates a populace primed for violent revolution. Decades of institutionalized poverty have created a primed pump. This in turn is a reality that one group on the Left whole-heartedly is attempting to exploit (albeit self defeated at times): Redneck Revolt.

Redneck Revolt is active in spaces in which white supremacist groups also often recruit, including country music concerts, flea markets, gun shows, NASCAR events, rodeos and state fairs. Chapters provide firearms and first aid training, food and clothing programs and community gardens and host needle exchanges, potlucks and educational events.

Interesting bit there. While the Left is no stranger to infighting, at a possibly even worse level than their counterparts on the Right, Redneck Revolt admittedly is correct in focusing on rural areas as a vanguard for fomenting revolution. This is reflective of the strategy employed by Che Guevara’s opinion on the same from his work Guerrilla Warfare. They are seeking to exploit the social and economic realities for their benefit. While the gun community snobs look down on guys with inexpensive gear, cheap weapons and optics, and a general lack of cool-guy bravado, they wholly embrace it. Its a more effective recruiting model than belittling a guy to whom $20 may mean the difference between if his kids eat why he can’t afford a NightForce and BCM AR-15.

This creates a serious potential in the rural areas. For all those I’ve personally heard claiming ‘that can’t happen here’, I argue that not only can a rural area be overrun quickly, but, without training and networking small isolated homesteads are easy pickings for a small team of determined attackers. With only one or two real trigger pullers in a home and little to no warning against a force that likely is well equipped with enablers such as night vision and thermal, you’d be easy pickings in the event that big balloon goes up.

So this begs the question as to mitigating this threat.

1. Take every opportunity to get to know your neighbors and bring something of value to the table. Understand that if you’re an outsider to a rural place, you’ll be exactly that for years. Rural folks are slow to warm up to new people. Be quick and receptive to taking advice and rare to give it yourself.

2. Take every opportunity to embrace the tradition of a place. The Left abhors tradition and the authority inherent in it. They exist to destroy it, viewing it only as an oppressive force maintaining status and social domination. Celebrate traditions and be a fixture in Church.

3. Stop saying ‘it can’t happen here.’ It absolutely can, and likely will, post-election. A normalcy bias exists, especially among rural areas and so-called retreatists, that they’re somehow exempted from all this. You’re not. The Left has been laying the groundwork for their revolution for well over 100 years and despite a few setbacks, plan to steamroll ahead.

4. Build an off-grid communications network. This is invaluable for early warning and critical for rural defense. Reliance on phone networks is problematic for a lot of reasons but central to that is its inherent fragility. I’ve been re-running old American Partisan communications articles on Brushbeater to refresh that knowledge,but nothing replaces training. Get some.

5. Get Training. This is the urgent one. Whether its from a course I’m running, or one of the many run by fellow American Partisan contributors and trainers such as Sam Culper or JC Dodge, you owe it to yourself to learn from those that have the real-world bona-fides in their specific areas of interest. In fact, JC Dodge has a course coming up just after the election- go train with him.

The next seven days in America will tell us much about the shaping of our future as a nation, but the days after it will tell us much more. The Left sees an opportunity, and while many on the Right have completely written off the threat posed to rural areas by Redneck Revolt, I contend, with a substantial amount of history to back it up, that for rural areas the threat may very well be the highest.

Be a hard target.

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The author exaggerates the drug problem in rural America. Yes, there's drug problems in rural America but it exists in pockets. It's not as if the entire place is swimming in meth and opiates.

As for "not happening here". As a general rule, rural people are very protective of their property and neighbors respect property lines. There's undoubtedly cases where people sneak in to hunt on private property. It's frowned on but it happens.

But roving bands of people coming into rural areas to cause mayhem wouldn't go over very well. In the first place, they would get shot,..and rural Sheriff's departments aren't going to be too enthused about persecuting an upstanding member of the community for shooting some schittbird that has arrived for no other reason than to cause trouble.

I *really* don't think that the manbun Antifa crowd is inclined to get very far out of their comfort zone.

Basically, in rural areas, I think you can figure on about 1 round of 00 an acre to keep your place Antifa free.

I think the S very well might hit the F after the election if Trump wins.
But these Antifa types will overplay their hand. They run wild in Portland and Minneapolis, cities run by Libs where none of the civilians have guns.

They get out here into the country they will be in for a very rude awakening.

Groups like Antifa only exist where they are protected by the government. If we have to have a civil war, it will be more like a extermination than a war.

If something like this did happen, it would likely only be in the burbs around the very large and insulated bubbles of the bigger cities. Any city in the south under half a million people is going to have nearly as many dirty pickups as it has sedans and SUVs. People who live in that environment know what the rural person will and won't put up with. Big cities that frown on camo in public? They might have some issues on the fringes, but that's maybe about it.

Check out Anderson county, Texas, that place is swimming in meth and other drugs.

Nous sommes tous des sauvages!

Bristoe here in upper Midwest western il iowa Missouri drugs are rampant. And I mean rampant. People you wouldn’t even think of on coke, meth busts and labs in news all the time

Yeah, I know. Appalachia has a bad drug problem too. But the author infers that the drug users will arm up and join with the Antifa/BLM schittbirds to make war on their neighbors.

The guy who wrote that article is an urbanite. He doesn't understand rural America. Basically, his entire frame of reference is from a video game called redneck rampage where subversives go to country music concerts and recruit *ahem* white supremacists

There's too much bullshit to sort through in that article.

If the manbun Antifa/BLM crowd ever invades Appalachia, they'll get shot. And the person that shoots them might be a crankhead.

I'm about 60 minutes by car from downtown Cincinnati. I've also got the OHio River between me and downtown.

Somebody asked me: What are you going to do if they invade your place?

My answer: I used to keep a big community tank. There were always a big fish that hid back behind the rocks. You'd never see him out, but if you put new fish in the tank, everything would be cool until the lights went out. The next morning, the big fish would be fatter and the new fish would be gone. When I drive out to the farm from town, I pass all these little white farm houses and empty-looking doublewides and such, and I figure each one has a big fish living in it. I've got nothing to worry about. I live on the dead end of a county road that comes from nowhere and ends at my tobacco barn. I look out the back and my neighbors are over a mile away. If any trouble does come down the road, all I have to do is hide out in the woods with one of my deer rifles and pick off whatever dares to step onto the front porch. KYHillChick owns a 30-06 and can hit a milk jug at 450 yards with it. I'll let her shoot the fat ones, and I'll take the skinny ones.

Thanks Shaman. I know where to go for those same conditions. Some inhabited by relatives and some uninhabited. Sometimes you have to do what you have to do. Be Well, Rustyzipper.

Not a good article. Muddle-headed and mixed up.

Exactly:

https://www.kxii.com/2020/10/26/tishomingo-coach-arrested-for-possession-of-meth-on-school-property/

TISHOMINGO, Oklahoma (KXII) - A Tishomingo Middle School coach was arrested on Thursday after a sheriff’s deputy found meth in his car.

Sgt. Alyson Orr-Dodd started investigating Coach James Paul Stallings after allegations were made of domestic abuse. Undersheriff Gary Dodd said after searching his car, she found about three grams of meth believed to be for personal use.

It is just the latest black eye for Tishomingo schools: two basketball coaches were fired three years ago for using a school bus to make a beer run on a road trip, two years ago a former superintendent was audited by OSBI for misusing school funds, and his wife--formerly a teacher and cheer coach-- is currently serving time for having sex with a student.

Dodd said no matter who you are, the safety of Tishomingo children comes first.

“I can tell you as a parent that I wouldn’t want this individual in the state that he is in currently in the care and custody of my child,” Dodd said.

Especially since coaches drive buses.

“There’s obviously a danger with someone who could possibly be under the influence of narcotics who is in control of our children in a motor vehicle,” Dodd said.

Dodd said the bottom line is that crimes like this won’t be permitted.

“We have a duty to protect the children,” Dodd said. “This type of behavior can’t be tolerated.”

The charges are misdemeanors, and Stallings bonded out the same day.

The allegations of domestic abuse are still under investigation.

Simon, I hear you. My rural friends in NC will not tolerate such rudeness.

Those antifas won't know what hit them.

Agreed.

Some here think the author is referring to antifa but he's not. He's talking about "home grown" redneck revolt ie. good ole' boys and their meth head kids attacking the farmer/rancher/prepper down the road.

Lots of dangerous hornets nests in rural counties.

Some of those nests are packed with lye/lime.

Google “Kulaks”....

Appalachia may be riddled with meth heads but it's also riddled with non-meth head rednecks[phuggers that can shoot deer in the ear at 100yds in the dark with a .22].
Those pukes really don't want to come out here.