To your 361 - I essentially agree, only I'm not sure that I'd go so far as to vote Dem.
There is a pretty good chance that i will sit an election out or vote 3rd party though, which would have pretty much the same effect.
The GOP just ain't gettin' it, are they?
And the more that Americans get taxed to death and pushed around by bureaucrats, politicians, and the likes of the ACLU and the Teacher's Unions, the more I hear people thinking and talking about the Constitutional 2nd Amendment option.
I would hate to see it come to that, really (Al Queda would just love us to devolve into another Civil War, no doubt) but if our Declaration of Independance is to be taken at all seriously, then it may come down to that or police state slavery.
Since Waco and Ruby Ridge, no one seems to be all that anxious to start the ball rolling in that direction, however. Most Americans still have too much to lose if they try it.
What might break it is if a bunch of Conservative Christians gather up in a communal, independant living compound / bunker and educate their own children, witholding taxes that would normally go to indoctrinating them, and ignoring nitwit bureaucratic orders to regulate them to death.
Then when (not if) the government goons come, we'll get to see if it's a redeaux of the Waco massacre or the Roman seige of Massada, or (since they hopefully won't be nearly as nutz as the Branch Davidians) if significant numbers of fed-up patriots will come out of the woodwork to reenforce them, or flank their attackers and cut off their supply lines.
Then, I think, we'd have a gen-yoo-ine revolution on our hands. Might even make the New York Times and FOX News.
Wouldn't be pretty, though, since the establishment has all of the fancy firepower (Army, Navy, Armor, artillery, air power, nukes etc..).
About the best a popular revolution could do is mount some sort of "insurgency" or resistance movement, much like the Dutch and Danes did when they were under Nazi occupation.
And again; the Islammofacists would just love that.
But do we have any other choices other than living under eventual police state Communism... or Sharia Law?
God help us if we don't.
I was half joking when i said i'd vote democrat because I still think there is a chance to change our course, and keep on going. Plus I'm aware every generation thinks this is the worst. I do not think our society is at a place where a revolution is needed, basically we are free, however both sides of the political spectrum are willing to sell out our freedoms to gain small victories for themselves. Worst case senario we're still 50 years away from our country being in such a terrible place.
However I don't think a revolution in this country would be very hard. If you get 10% of the people to just run sabotage and roadside bombings of legitament military targets we'd win in three days. Look at Iraq, our military can't chase down uneducated fanatics who make a very small portion of Iraqi society (maybe 1/10%). Not to meantion our armed forces are staffed by people who love freedom, I doubt our armed forces would fight a war against its people when a clearly repressive government was in power.