uhhh dude we have elections in the United States.........you ever heard of those.....you know when the citizens vote for thier representives.
So true, but for good or bad we aren't a democracy, we're a republic. And as a free society and people, we have the inherent right and responsibility to revolt and shrug off any government that becomes tyrannical. You don't really think that we've evolved so much as human beings that an open revolution is out of the question do you?
All those uneducated, irrational, emotional citizens that the left likes to insult, well those people are a VAST majority of this country. They also own most of the guns, and make up probably 80-85% of our military. Sure there are progressives in the military, but most of them are there for the college money, it's the hard core patriots that will have to choose to follow the orders of an individual they feel is destroying the foundation of the country they swore to protect or side with their family and friends. If they get pushed too far, which way do you think they will go?
Not saying it will happen, but I think it is the height of stupidity to believe it couldn't. That possibility is EXACTLY why we have the 2nd amendment. The politicians are SUPPOSED to fear the populace, it is that fear which keeps them from becoming tyrants. And make no mistake, a great many already feel they are.
The progressives may indeed be able to subvert the intentions of the Constitution, they may be able to evade it's restrictions, they may even stack the supreme court with legal activists and they may be able to do it all legally, all the while congratulating themselves on their brilliance. The problem they have, and are so egotistical and elitist that they don't consider, is the founders of this country KNEW this would happen. They knew it would happen and they knew it would take revolution to restore the Republic. It's only a question of when.
“The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government” - TJ
“Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms (of government) those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny” - TJ
A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government. - TJ
Was he a psychic or did he simply learn from history... something the progressives seem to have forgotten how to do.