I am inclined to agree with the author and your position. It just makes sense. Especially if one is a reader of dystopias where people are always fighting against their government.

An interesting book that I feel applies to this analysis is "Society Must Be Defended!" by French philosopher and historian Michel Foucault. In this book, compiled from a series of lectures he gave, he begins by asking himself what insights might be gained from an inversion of the famous Clausewitz aphorism, "politics…