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Zhade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-01-03 04:07 AM
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Poll question: The question few ask.
Edited on Mon Sep-01-03 04:15 AM by Zhade
Do you believe there will be another American Revolution in our lifetime?
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Booberdawg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-01-03 04:09 AM
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1. How 'bout an option for "not sure"?
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DannyRed Donating Member (509 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-01-03 04:19 AM
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2. How about an option
I hope so
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alexwcovington Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-01-03 04:22 AM
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3. Let's hope things don't get too desperate
Meh. Anything could happen.
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radfringe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-01-03 06:08 AM
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4. as things stand right now
I don't see a "revolution" in the sense that people take to the streets and topple the government.

Too many people are indifferent to the political scene and are woefully ignorant as to what is going on in this country and the world. on the news last night, it was reported that less 50% of registered Democratic voters were able to name at least one Dem candidate running for the presidential nomination. This is a sad state of affairs.

The closest thing to a revolution that I can see would be for the whistleass and his GOPers in Congress to be thrown out. Whether what replaces them would be better or worse remains to be seen.

next closest would be impeachment and removal of the Whistleass and Crashcart-Cheney. We would then be in a "holding" pattern until the next election..



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baldguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-01-03 07:28 AM
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5. Why not? We've already had a coup d'état.
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izzie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-01-03 07:52 AM
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6. I think we are in the mist of a social revolution right now.
I do not know when it will stop but soon we will find our society not as we knew it. I think we have a few very large things to think about. One the 'war' of religions Arab vs the "Christians" Both say they are right and doing it in Gods name. Two the mass of uneducated people who make up most(95%) of the world that want what we have. These people are not Christians and we are and get rich off them. If people do not see this as trouble I do not think they are looking at the world. The more "Chistians" run this power house the more the trouble bubbles to the top. A Christian country can not seem to be sending its army into the world to take over. One guy with a gun can not stop 100 without for long.On top of that we have China on the side lines watching it all and we are spending out selfs into the ground doing this as they get richer and stronger.It is a revolution I think.
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Nikia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-01-03 09:34 AM
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7. If things continue in the direction that they are
I think that it is inevitable in the next twenty years. I am not saying that they will continue in this direction. There are many chances for things to change course. Americans will not tolerate blatant Fascism for long.
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toddzilla Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-01-03 10:45 AM
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8. it's important to..
you'd have to differentiate between revolution on the people's side and revolution on the gov't side..

i put nothing past pnac'ers.. nothing..
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Zhade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-03 01:18 AM
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16. Good point.
To clarify: a revolution by true patriots - in other words, in defense of the Constitution and liberty.

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xJlM Donating Member (955 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-01-03 11:00 AM
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9. Our government is too well fortified
I mean, you're talking hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of deaths of common citizens. If it were to actually come to that, how many of you would have what it takes, both in the idea of killing your fellow man and in armaments? Not too many, I'd guess...
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graham67 Donating Member (732 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-01-03 11:03 AM
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10. Revolution, no
civil war, maybe :shrug:
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Woodstock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-01-03 07:54 PM
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12. I can see a civil war because
Edited on Mon Sep-01-03 07:55 PM by Woodstock
the die hard Bushies would never even imagine revolt

they live to be deceived and serve their master, body and soul
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Booberdawg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-01-03 07:48 PM
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11. Okay - IF bush* get's elected in 2004 then
I certainly hope so!!!
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poskonig Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-01-03 07:56 PM
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13. The Republicans were obsessed about this during Clinton.
eom
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VOX Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-01-03 08:29 PM
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14. Already under way. Country has been polarized into Left and Right...
by the media, and to a degree, we ourselves have allowed this to happen. When meaningful discourse, compromise, negotiation and mutual respect go out the window, it's certain that bad trouble will follow.

I wish it weren't so, but I can't shake the feeling that there will be bloodshed sometime soon. Citizens of this country have become that intolerant of one another.

When the disenfranchised finally take to the streets in large numbers -- and it's my belief that they will, if things are allowed to continue on their current course -- we will have an extremely volatile situation on our hands.

None of this has to pass, however, if some changes can be made (starting with * OUT).
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Fight_n_back Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-01-03 08:31 PM
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15. The only thing that people in the US would take up arms against
would be severe interruption of cable service.

The rich have won...we are just fat enough to fear big change.
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Ein Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-03 01:19 AM
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17. It is imperative.
The current system of elections is crap. We elect monied people who invariable do not represent the proletariate.

All change has come through struggle.
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KaraokeKarlton Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-03 01:21 AM
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18. We're sort of having one right now
And it's called Howard Dean's grassroots. :)
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