Would Americans Actually Dare Revolt Against This Abusive Government?

ClashDaily.com ^ | 12/9/13 | Donald Joy

[IChing]

Should we merely suffer these abuses, hoping that more rigged and fraudulent elections will provide the necessary remedy? Do we really have any other choice? If so, do enough of us have the will?

[pgkdan]

I don’t think we’ll ever revolt against the government no matter how tyrannical it beocomes. As a nation, as a people, we’re too fat, lazy and comfortable. Not all of us...but as a nation this is true.

[gattaca]

bump

[knarf]

I agree and with your reasoning

[sarasota]

Believe the “boiling frog analogy” is appropriate here. Unfortunately.

[lesko]

And miss the NFL playoffs? Are you kidding?

[hadaclueonce]

If pushed far enough, I think so.

I am 60 years old.

Get off my lawn.

[CivilWarBrewing]

Our Forefathers would’ve never succeeded if the British had nuclear weapons.

[JRandomFreeper]

We didn't use nuclear weapons in Afghanistan, and a handful of troublemakers over there pretty much thumbed their noses at the military might of the west.

We still don't have control of the Taliban.

/johnny

[Billthedrill]

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

That was always the criterion. Totalitarians recognize this and try to push the envelope, always, as our own are doing at the moment. Nobody sane wants to start shooting anyone if it isn't necessary.

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government...

Soap box, ballot box, jury box, cartridge box. The media soap box has been expropriated, the ballot box corrupted, the jury box overruled. I don't get the sense that the ones pushing the envelope have any idea how very close they're coming to the last resort. I do get the sense that they think they can control it when it happens. Every ruling class ever overthrown felt thought so, and they were all wrong.

[Joe Boucher]

What we really need is a great General Turdgeson or twenty.

[DBrow]

The fighters in Afghanistan don’t have high tech and we’ve been there for, what, 12 years now? Viet Nam was no easy task either.

Voting is obsolete. We just allowed the ruling party to use the IRS to win an election, and the Civitas database probably was fed FBI and CIA and NSA data as well as IRS data. Nobody seems to be doing anything about that, so Iassume that the next election will see the same tools, tactics, and databases used again.

[Berosus]

The public might be more willing to revolt if the Republicans in Congress would do their job, but instead of leading the way, they keep ignoring Obama’s abuses of power.

[CivilWarBrewing]

I think this entire 0bamacare fiasco, from its passage to its implementation and Team Barry's total disregard for accountability and the rule of law is one giant 'desensitization exercise' aimed at conditioning us to accept the intolerable.

Having successfully imposed 0bamacare with little to no resistance will only empower the regime to double down on lawlessness.

[CivilWarBrewing]

Even worse, the senior Republican leadership is BASHING REPUBLICANS when they should be TRASHING OBAMACARE AND THE REGIME’S LAWLESS BEHAVIOR!

[Steely Tom]

Would Americans Actually Dare Revolt Against This Abusive Government?

They sure didn't have any trouble revolting against the Johnson and Nixon governments.

[Salgak]

. . . not to mention “Dancing With the Stars”.

Revolutions are nasty businesses, make you late for dinner and make you miss your shows. . .

(/sarcasm)

[Las Vegas Ron]

and the rule of law is one giant 'desensitization exercise' aimed at conditioning us to accept the intolerable.

Interesting observation, I'd like to see it tested by cancelling EBT's though.

[556x45]

LOL, what???

[Technocrat]

But do you think that if the bureaucrats who transmit the orders to and pay the soldiers and cops suffered a ten percent cull that the rest of them would continue to resist us? Or even show up to work, for that matter?