Benevolent Societies versus the Modern Fake Militias

There's a bunch of manufactured news and excitement around some gun owner rally in Virginia tomorrow, January 20, 2020. I haven't followed the story too closely, but it seems like the feds, the state government, and probably even some Canadian intelligence agency, lol, is involved in setting up some "militia" or paramilitary organization. For decades, TV shows and movies, and live-action role play dramatists have been setting up the concept of "right wing ethnic extremists" in the United States. There are real, actual people who fit that description in the US, but it's a tiny, tiny number. I doubt they'd even fill a short bus.

It's interesting that so much effort goes into undermining such groups... to the point that they have to create them out of whole cloth to pre-emptively undermine them and constantly generate stories in the media about the concept. The government bureaucracy is terrified that people, specifically rural and suburban people, the yeomanry, will organize in any way beyond the most pedestrian community and school organizations.

A militia or a paramilitary organization is probably the least beneficial and useful thing people can organize. There's 100% chance that any such organization larger than 5 people is completely infiltrated and at best is a honey pot.

Something like The Grange or other benevolent brotherhoods would probably help people out much more today. In prior eras, such organizations provided life insurance, health insurance, and similar services for people.