Quote Originally Posted by HoreTore View Post
That's the problem, isn't it? Who knows what the future will bring? Fascism needs a few people in strategic places with power and money, theocracy needs some religious whippin', communism needs demagogues inciting the poor/working class. None of those are unrealistic in any country IMO.
The excellent thing about having a regulated militia is that for every communist militia, you have a libertarian militia. As well as that, you have the regular army - if one militia tries to seize power, the regulars and opposing militias will step in.