While I agree with ansel that Obemba isn’t going to try to run for a third term nor try to become ‘dictator-for-life’, I’ll try to answer your prime question:
Assuming that he would try to run for a third term and/or simply become ‘dictator-for-life’ and while people here on FR talk a lot of nonsense about Revolution II/Civil War II/Race War ‘?’, neither will happen because too many people are complacent and ‘do-not-want-to-lose-what-they-have’. In other words, Obemba would do exactly that without too much opposition.
Sure, there would be outrage, etc, but the bottom line is that we would then be subjugated forever.
You have to consider that many, if not most, FReepers are old, decrepit and simply can no longer be as active as a 20-year-old in his prime.
Some, despite their posts of outright rebellion, are at the point of being too old to care much about what is going to happen tomorrow and do not even know if they are going to be on this Earth tomorrow. I, for example, am 71-years old with multiple health issues and I do mean ‘multiple’. How long would I last in a rebellion? Maybe until after the first shot would be fired? ;-)
Harsh? Maybe, but from my viewpoint, that is where we stand.
Another poster, years ago, and I wish that I could remember his screen name, said something to the effect that FReepers are a lot of talk but no action. That may or may not be true and I do not know the whole of the FReeper mentality but I think that many FReepers are in the same boat as I.
Are we full just full of Bluster?
Really?
Maybe.
“Where are the strong, who are the Trusted?”
If they are not HERE, than where are they?
If FR and freepers suck so much, why do you waste time here?
You sound like a bitter 71 year old man who thinks everyone is just like himself.
So.
The question remains.
CAN IT HAPPEN?
The answer is YES.
Will it happen?
The answer is Maybe, if there is nobody to stop it.
I contend that there will be people that will stop it.
He contends that there is virtually nothing that can be done to stop him.
If you seriously think only freepers stand between us and a dictatorship you are wrong. That’s so nutty it’s scary...
The mistake communists make is thinking this country has a history of being under the boot.
We don’t. Quite the opposite.
The United States is not third world, we’re not a black hellhole like Detroit, and we’re not the South Side of Chicago where corruption and intimidation work.
That’s not America.
The only people Obama would have on his side would be inner city blacks. He’d even lose union guys, dependent women and most white liberal elites. Yes, he would have illegals... but most Hispanics who have lived here a while time would stand with their fellow Americans. They know about living with dictators - they’re too smart to fall for that crap...