I couldn't find anything else about it when I looked last night, but shooting a child would be a very ballsy move to up the ante when tensions are this fucking high. Not saying I couldn't see it happening, but more of a bewildered, oh really motherfucker? You think you're ready to go there?

Their goal is to provoke a civil war, but they can't just start a civil war. They need us to start it because they need some percentage of the working class part of the country to stay asleep and keep pretending that the world isn't burning around them.

I could be wrong but I think shooting Renee Good and actually being called out by the media for releasing a video that proved it was straight up murder when they thought it proved their point, inadvertently made at least a crack in that base. The ones who are so brainwashed by hero worship. They want to believe so badly that even if their authoritarian parent murders others, they'll always be safe.

The administration cracks down because they want to agitate and create fear in their opposition, but they definitely don't want their base to wake up and realize their false sense of security is what has been driving them to pretend "this is fine." It's the comforting delusion of normality, and the belief that as long as they're good little boys and girls, as long as they obey, as long as they have nothing to hide, they have nothing to fear. They believe daddy is only doing what needs to be done to keep his family safe. When others don't live up to daddy's standards or they refuse to comply with daddy's rules, they have to face the "natural" consequences, but daddy would never hurt them.

Reminds me of one of my favorite batshit insane quotes by one of my least favorite IRL villains (who to her credit, allegedly woke up and realized what daddy was capable of) "If we're going to dance, let's all dance in the sunlight."

Turns out all that was available was one poorly schooled child and an army of knock-off Nazis.