Talk:Equalists/@comment-11859596-20130711000541

Seriously though,  these equalists are basically muggles with some fancy weapons and some motivation. If the benders were really determined to quell the revolution,  they would have launched a wide ranging investigation of all factories and all influential persons who could get these filthy mudbloods the weapons they need to overthrow the government. They would have launched a smear campaign against amon and all of his affiliates,  and they would have stopped this uprising in its tracks right from the beginning. But the methods taken,  even when lin beifong was still in power,  we're mediocre,  and I suspect that the government wanted at first to let this play out,  and then crush the revolution in order to send a message to anyone who opposes them. The counsel should have been dissolved,  because tarlok and tenzin were the only two real counsel men and even then,  tarlok was obviously the only one with real power and influence. The muggles got lucky that the government was so unstable and frankly powerless during this revolution,  and they were greatly underestimated. Any similar uprising likely won't ever happen again,  because amon had this timed correctly,  just with the arrival of korra to republic city and the ascent to power of tarlok.