Which image best describes your most likely course should...

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

...McCain somehow be installed as our next president?

And secondly, do you believe the vast majority of citizens would/will take the course of image number four (comply) under a McCain/Palin administration?

On edit: Second question, image four (not five).

[Motown_Johnny]

1. run to Alaska and vote for independence

[Phredicles]

2. Stay in California and vote for independence;

Independent LA, independent California, independent Pacific coast - it's all good.

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

3. One thing we'll know for certain if McCain gets installed is...

...that our votes are utterly meaningless.

[vaberella]

4. They'll go the way of Cindy McCain (since she was under his rule) and medicate into oblivion. n/t

[anonymous171]

5. 3 baby!

[begin_within]

6. There is no escape

[Indenturedebtor]

7. 1 and 5 and Yes n/t

[L0oniX]

16. same here n/t

[Ichingcarpenter]

8. This one

BUT I THINK THIS IS WHAT WILL HAPPEN

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

10. I could've used your first image as the...

..."I'll deal with it without medication" option.

[jcla]

9. I'll start learting the verses to "O Canada"

It won't be pretty to be in USA if McShame wins. Am moving to Canada to outlast global warming and avoid civil unrest.

And keep the way open for others on the New Underground railroad!

[Uncle Joe]

11. I wouldn't advise running or escaping to any low lying islands or coastal areas. n/t

[progressivebydesign]

12. I won't let them chase me from my Country!! We are bigger than that! n/t

[blondeatlast]

13. Mr. B@L has a job offer in Europe and if Mccain pulls this off (shich I doubt) we're as good as ther

If Obama/Biden win we may stick it out here.

[medicswife]

14. Just spoke to my MIL and she says should they steal it,

she's going to take to the streets this time too. That was a big surprise to me, because she's a Government employee.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

15. 3 & no. But, man, your fighter looks the way I feel a lot these days.

Looks like he's already done several rounds.

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

17. Yes, I thought he was a fitting image...

...we've really been dragged through it over the last eight years.

[Orsino]

18. Well, a mixture of all of the above, mostly one, and yes.

Shutting up and doing as we're told is as American as apple pie.

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

20. Yes, compliance is hammered into us from a very early age...

...and it's not easy to shake the notion that authority is not to be challenged, but massive sustained non-compliance is probably the only viable way we could defeat these illegitimate fascist thugs without international help.

[tomg]

19. If my college students are indicative

of the average citizen, and I have no reason to believe that they are not, they won't notice that it was stolen. If told, they won't believe it. If they do believe it, they will think it was justified.

Recently, for Constitution Day ( Did you know that all higher educational institutions where students get any federal funding are required by law to have programs presented where students are educated on the Constitution on September 17th?) I was part of performance piece on the constitution - if the faculty present are any indication, it was pretty hilarious/frightening ( set up like a carnival/game show - it included Habeas Corpus Wheel of Fortune, Enhanced Interrogation Jeopardy, etc.). The problem was that the students had no idea as to what was going on. This was then followed by a serious and fascinating panel composed of faculty from poli sci and history. The Q & A afterwards really helped, but even after, I had the uneasy feeling that far too many of the students were under the impression that "it can't happen here."

I voted 3/yes, but I don't think that they will see it as compliance. They simply won't notice.

[dbonds]

21. I'm getting too old to fight with anything except my brain.

Body is in bad shape. In the 70's the protesters learned that the government was armed and willing to use it, it is only worse now. If I thought I could make a difference I would fight, but my skills are not physical ones, more software and electrical engineering. I will probably find a safe place/country and do what I can from there.

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

22. I didn't necessarily mean to imply armed or violent resistance...

...with the "fight" option. There are other ways to resist oppression. I favor massive non-violent non-compliance, but it's not something that's easy to organize, and to be effective it must be sustained.

[dbonds]

23. I don't think the government would play by the rules.

They will make it violent. Remember Kent State.

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

24. They would almost certainly use violence to make examples...

...out of some of us hoping to scare the masses back into compliance, and that would be the toughest test for the resistance -- to stay non-compliant and nonviolent even after government hired thugs injure and kill some of us.

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

25. Kick for a larger sample.

[Vinca]

26. How about 1 and I don't really care because I won't be in this country. nt

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

27. Don't you have friends in the U.S. ?

How is it you don't care?

[Vinca]

28. It's easy. I'm older and would like a few years of serenity before

I leave the world of the breathing. I will tend to my garden, paint a few pictures, sew a few quilts, love my family and pamper my pets and forget everything I every knew or cared about politics. Oh, and I might actually be able to get healthcare, too. All that said, I will be shocked if Obama doesn't win.

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

29. I see, you won't care about POLITICS anymore.

Well, a McCain/Palin White House would probably prompt me not to pay any more attention or put any more effort toward U.S. politics either -- their installation would prove our present system is a total sham.

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

30. Kick for a larger sample.

[SmokingJacket]

31. Unfortunately I can't imagine leaving.

I'm WAY dug in here. And I'm forty, have 2 kids, and I don't know if I have it in me to fight much, either. I mean, I'll write letters, but I'm not going to be throwing molotov cocktails anytime soon (knock on wood).

So I guess it's medicate.

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

32. Kick for a larger sample.

[kiranon]

33. Look into moving to another country. n/t

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

34. I think more than a few people are seriously...

...investigating leaving the U.S. for good -- sad, but understandable.

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

35. Kick for a larger sample.

[blue_onyx]

36. I would fight.

It wouldn't be too hard for me to leave...just go across the Detroit River to Canada. But I wouldn't do that. It's our country and gotta fight, even if things don't go your and you feels helpless.

[mvd]

37. Unfortunately, there isn't much I can do

I'd like to resist, but it depends on what the country and Congress do.

I think they would comply initially.

[SoonerPride]

38. We'll be moving to another country. This is Germany in the 30s. This is it.

We either win and change direction or the homo-round ups and re-education camps are around the fucking corner.

In it to win it or we're out of here.

[WeDidIt]

39. I'd seriously consider eating a bullet.

:shrug:

Why even bother trying any more if that happens.

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

43. Please don't do that...

...no matter what happens, don't do that.

[WeDidIt]

47. I said I'd seriously consider it

That doesn't mean I'd do it.

Doesn't mean I wouldn't, either.

Just means I'd seriously consider it.

[mtnsnake]

40. Riot

[dudewheresmycountry]

41. Does smoking a big fat dubie

mean I am gonna medicate... I think not.........

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

44. As long as you don't inhale I don't see a problem -- carry on.

:hi:

[scarletwoman]

42. I will quietly live out my life, finding joy and beauty in the natural world, and treat

the people around me with compassion and loving kindness.

My sons are adults, I taught them as best I could to question authority, to think for themselves, to value art and beauty and nature and truth.

I will live my remaining years as quietly and invisibly as any Russian peasant under the Soviet Union.

sw

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

45. Good for you, SW, I can only hope we all find a way to do the same.

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

46. Run as far and fast as I can.

To Vietnam, Thailand or China to teach advanced conversational English and some Anglo-American law after I pick up the local language. I've fucking had it. I have lived through Nixon, Reagan, Bush I, Clinton (at best, a useful enabler of neocon/neoliberal forms of economic fascism) and this lunatic Chimp and his Palpatine puppetmaster. In the immortal words of Colonel Sherman T. Potter of the 4077th M*A*S*H, "I'm too old for this kind of crap. I think I tore my shorts."

I am not a young man anymore, though I am not yet an old man. I suffer from Asperger's Syndrome and depression, which make me unemployable in this country as anything but a menial despite being a classmate, and sectionmate of Michelle Obama at Harvard Law. I've been unemployed or ridiculously underemployed for most of the last twenty years because I am cold and logical, not friendly, superficial, and engaging. I am what I am, and in the professional world people love my work and recoil at me. When I contemplate my remaining alloted years on this earth, I want to be surrounded by balanced, Confucian culture, delicious and indigenous food, beautiful and well-educated women. Indifference to politics in my adopted home as long as the let me teach and bash America for being imbecilic, greedy, and riddled with the stupidest religious movements in the history of the planet.

I HAVE HAD ENOUGH, and if you want to know why, find an article by The Great Matt Taibbi called "Jesus Made Me Puke." Any country in which there is a substantial number of people like these is determined to die of its own fucking clinical and pathological idiocy. Hey, morons, I hope Jeebus can pay your mortgage, educate your kids (Good Dog, what am I saying, these people recoil from real education like vampires from garlic) and give you a McJob. Too many Americans are simply too dumb to live.

[tedoll78]

48. Ever see "Children of Men?"

Michael Caine's character had a lovely, secluded place in the woods. Regardless of who wins, I'm already taking steps towards #2. The acreage is purchased; the house plans are being drawn.

I can't leave the country; I can't leave my Mom, Dad, sister, and others behind. :(

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

50. I haven't seen it, but I will.

I hope you find refuge from the coming madness if McCain should be elected.

I found these scenes from "Children of Men" on youtube -- hope I'm wrong, but it looks like where we're headed:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATgX7AMackA

[JustAnotherGen]

49. I'm running

To Southern France to work in a gift shop - or *gulp* - Dusseldorf Germany.

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

51. Kick for a larger sample.