If a (hypothetical) revolution started today in the U.S.A would you join it or fight it?

Violent revolutions rarely go cleanly. A coup leaves many dead, and pretty much guarantees that civil war will erupt in a country between proponents of the new regime and supporters of the old.

Its not some multiplayer game where as soon as the new government takes hold everyone who wants the old government drops their guns and says

"Whoop! Ok, you guys win, time to embrace the new!"

Heck, there are still people who feel the Civil War of the 1800s is still going, to some extent =)

Alot of what your suggesting sounds like Socialism. At present there are very few people that would be so openly embraced to socialism UNLESS you could provide every person with every desire they have.

I've always felt that a good solution to this would be a Prot Lodge. Or a kind of YMCA focused on all forms of recreation (videogames, sports, intellectual pursuits, open-door think tanks, free learning Annex style classes, etc)

Ultimately, any revolution of this nature would have to provide the people with enough pleasure and benefits (ones they could see directly affecting them) to outweigh having the old system essentially yanked from beneath their feet.

Just why do you think so many people from around the world are trying to get to this country?!!

If you want to find a country that desperately needs to have a revolution, try Mexico!

The problem with this country is there are too many native-born young people who don't even know how good they have had it compared to most of the rest of the world.

I wouldn't. We don't really need a revolution, we simply need people to take advantage of the privilege of voting.

The people in government wouldn't be there if we didn't elect them. The problem is, the government is being elected by a very small percentage of "the people".

If we're too apathetic to vote, why would we be interested in starting a civil war. That just doesn't make ANY sense at all.

Well, truthfully, I personally wouldn't do either. I am struggling myself and need to get my own issues fixed before I can carry someone elses cross. If I was in good standing with my issues, I would fight, because I care about people, but I think most people would not do either for similar reasons. And most people have it in thier hearts to fight. It is seriously the American way. Peace

artificial price caps on gas and other resources are not reasonable and would not work for very long however I do agree that the Congressional system is out dated and far to venerable to corruption

how are you going to pay for everyone to attend college on sales tax alone?? what percentage do you think you could get away with?? do you intend to tax the food and baby formula that people need regardless of income??

honestly no longer. The extra the resistance escalated the war, the extra the government might respond in sort. the government might win, in fact. i might quite no longer finally end up on some government blacklist. If I did harbor unwell-will in the direction of the government, and that i desperate to act on it, they extra advantageous no longer see it coming.

Many of those revolutionary goals are appealing, but the thought of a society based on "national pride" turns my stomach.

As a pacifist, I couldn't support a movement based upon violence anyway.

No, because Americans have already created something wonderful. And we have created ways to work on problems along the way.

Fight it as such civil wars often bring about a lot of hardships in the aftermaths due to the inexperience of the new leaders. Older, more experienced leaders such as President Bush would be better prepared to deal with such circumstances.

fight it....Im a vet and a cop for 17 years.....there is a lot I dont like about here but Ive seen what the other places have to offer...we still sre the best thing going....faults and Dems and all