Yeah! Never in the history of the world has such an event taken place, as long as the country had crumbly pieces of brown paper saying it shouldn't.promethean75 wrote: ↑Sun Aug 14, 2022 2:41 pm "It's a few sheets of crumbly old brown paper. How's it gonna stop thugs with guns?"
c'mon skip you're not thinkin it through. any paramilitary or militia uprising would be countered by the U.S. military. similarly if a citizen uprising happened the sitting president would command the U.S. military to handle it. but never could a fascist dictator president perform a coup, illegally oust the sitting president and immediately afterward lock everybody down just for the hell of it. the executive branch of government is still held in check by the other two branches and you can't just evoke the power of the military and declare a gestapo state for no reason.
...oh, wait...
So... civil war is impossible, because there isn't enough money to be made in armaments and troop provisioning, let alone the land-speculation and profiteering that follows? That's a relief!but really all that is neither here nor there because the real reason there would never be a coup of the sort in the U.S. is because the wealthy handlers won't allow it to happen. it disrupts economy and you can't make any money if all the workers are carrying guns instead of clip boards. so you don't wanna piss the working class off and you'd end up making more money anyway if you just let them continue doing what they're doing in an inflating economy.
The fringes of a largish disaffected, increasingly right-wing, increasing violent, [“I am armed. I am dangerous. And I know where you and your staff are.” https://rollcall.com/2022/01/20/rise-in ... h-threats/ increasingly anti-constitution https://www.businessinsider.com/constit ... urt-2022-7 right-wing Republicans, Libertarians, 'independents' and organized militant groups https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-fr ... urrection/no but think about it. who are these 'thugs with guns' you're talking about? like a jan 6 job? you're kidding, right?
Yeah... I didn't think that through.... just kidding!Two-thirds of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents say they would like to see former President Donald Trump continue to be a major political figure for many years to come, including 44% who say they would like him to run for president in 2024, according to a Pew Research Center survey of U.S. adults conducted Sept. 13 to 19. [url]ttps://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/10/0 ... n-in-2024/[/url]