Should America have a second revolution?

Question

I'm not advocating violence or anything. However I don't think there will be any other way to take America back, from the corrupt big government and huge corporations, than a bloody revolution. Am I just totaly wrong?

Answer 1

We don't need any stinking revolutions because we can vote every four years. If you don't like the candidates, you have to right to nominate anyone you want.

Answer 2

You are not totally wrong. In fact you are most emphatically correct. However, you are a bit late. We already had one. And if you have any doubts as to the validity of self- determination, read the Declaration of Independence. Humans have inalienable rights to govern themselves. And in the event that the Federal government does not do what we the people set it up to do, it is our right and responsibilty to abolish it. And we did...well, we tried. It is called the War for Southern Independence, commonly mis-labeled as the Civil War. The trial of this right, however, was settled by wager of battle. The Jeffersonian, constitutionalist, states-righters lost. The revolution failed. And as a result, the United STATES of America were reconstituted into a new Nationalized EMPIRE of America. Our federal government is out of control. In fact, there is only one small strand of fabric standing between total domination. And that strand is the second amendment, soon to be eroded away.

Answer 3

Yes, and its happening right now.
A revolution is defined as 'revolving' a situation, 180 degrees.

Right now the Republicans control the executive, legislative and judicial branches of government.

However, even the conservative Supreme Court has upheld flag burning as a legitimate form of protest. Conservative justice Scalia even ruled in its favor.

Democrats are sure to win the legislature back in November, because the war is depleting our resources and gas will continue to escalate in price.

People vote from the dinner table, and don't get it when an oilman president can't control the A) cost of gasoline and B) the profit margins of oil companies, which Bush defends because he's in their back pockets.

Really, its time for him and the republicans to step aside and let democrats restore our economy.

Answer 4

Whether or not we do have a revolution has little or nothing to do with if we should. Historically, all civilizations go utterly mad every few hundred years or so and therefore it is reasonable to expect that ours will, too.

But I do have this to say:

Revolutions are bad. They tend to engender and empower a type of leadership that is talented at general mayhem and brutally deficient in justice. Those are the leaders who will sit in power after the smoke clears and blood dries.

Do what you can to make your own life and the lives of those around you better. Don't contemplate killing people.

Heaven forbid that one succeeds in violent revolution only to discover that one has become the very thing that one hated.

Answer 5

Yes we need a revolution. It was stated as fact by Thomas Jefferson, that whenever the gov. gets to big or corrupt and they stop representing the people and just themselves that WE THE PEOPLE must have a revolution.
Democracy is a fragile gov. And in being so must walk a fine line from becoming corrupt.To many Big names and corporations are throwing their weight and mostly their money to blind everyone and put aside our CIVIL LIBERTIES for their benefit.So they can do and say as they please and get away with it.
Anymore I welcome the thought of a Revolution.Maybe one day my kids will have the same civil liberties that I had, Once Upon a Time............

Answer 6

Yes - unfortunately - you are "totally wrong". What exactly are you wanting. We have a great country where 300 million live. We have the strongest military and the greatest form of government. We have free elections where people can choose who will lead. We have a great economy and the lowest unemployment. Our economy is booming, inflation is down and people are living longer that ever. What are you missing? You need to get your news from someplace other than the Daily Show or Air America.

Answer 7

well I would say vote, but look what happened in 2000, I think in the next 50to 100 years or so, the united states economy and government will collapse, and there will at least a social revoltuion, I'm not sure if there will be a violent revoution or civil war though, that is of course, if the world still exist in the next 50 years

Answer 8

No need for human-sacrifice.

If the American people want to live in freedom then they’re going to have to return to expressing the founding principles of American freedom. This would automatically lose the corporate mockery of democracy.

Each and every individual must learn to abide by and convey the inherent, "Laws of Nature and of Nature's God, "self-evident" truth and the people's "unalienable Rights", endowed by their Creator. "That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men…", as mandated by the American Declaration of Independence.

Today, without individually expressing the founding principles of American freedom, Americans, and their legacy of freedom and prosperity, are being devalued into warriors and debt slaves.

Answer 9

I think most people are comfortable with the way things are. Some mumble and grumble but most don't want to do anything to change it. So even if a revolution was the answer, I highly doubt you could convince enough people to do it.

Answer 10

I think there should definitely be a consumer revolution. In fact it has already started. Check out http://www.pirate-party.us. It's about fighting such problems in America. Its good to hear that more people are getting pissed off by this issue.