Re:Protester shot in chest by live police round during Hong ...
by amanaplanacanal on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @11:28AM
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Look at politics in the US. It would never be the whole country against a dictator. A much more likely scenario would be something like 50% supporting the dictator and 50% rebelling. I don't know how it would play out, but I know it would be ugly. The reasonable course for most people would be to flee.
Except that an army cannot fight on 10 fronts at the same time. When you have a whole country turning against you, you can't be there at every single place every second with a regular army. On the contrary a regular army would be beaten up in no time.
You also have to take in account that it's much more likely there would be rogue generals turnings against the power in place so general + armed people is a good catalyst.