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Depends on who the vigilantes are. The war is not the people vs. gov, it's red vs. blue. If the blue team gets vigilantes, the red team brings a whole lot more of them, armed to the teeth, with a penchant for violence, and full knowledge that there will be no repercussions for them.
Just because they tricked half the population into becoming collaborators doesn’t mean it’s not the owning class versus the common people.
Don't get me wrong, there will be fights along political lines, they will be used as cannon fodder but just like any war the opposing soldier is not your enemy, those that guide the actions of those solders are. Propaganda will do one heck of job making sure gullible people believe they have no choice.
Racism is form of cancer but it has been demonstrated many times that on a individual level it can be cured.
Yeah. Yeah, it does.