If you believe we live in a dictatorship, then I encourage you to talk with Venezuelans and Cubans who escaped to here. Perhaps you can relocate. We aren’t even close to a dictatorship.
Funny you should mention that. On the Amtrak to DC on 9/12/09, we sat next to 2 sisters from Cuba, who's family managed to escape. They told us stories, as they were little girls, of how it all started.
They remember it all, which is why they were attending the Tea Party in DC on 9/12/09. They witnessed how it began and what became of it. They were there to make sure the hell they and their family escaped from would NOT happen here.
They witnessed the beginnings of a government takeover and see it happening here.
I'd take their stories and what their family and friends words and what they went through before I'd take a "keyboard commanders."