So, who thinks the US is ready for a coup d'etat?

Question

I do.

For S H I R A Z:

HELL YES.

Answer 1

your bring silly. that would require abondonment of our entire system. are you advocating the overthrow of the government?

Answer 2

Having read over the responses, I would supplement your question with a further question:
What has been done to address the inequities of the previous election?
Why not create a movement around the securing of the democratic process in the U. S.?
That would be a place to start, perhaps.
I think, from there, you would also wish to look at preferential voting. (You get to vote for your first, second, third choice. That way, if there's no clear winner, and your guy was a distant third your second place vote comes into play! And so, many more people get to vote for candidates that are idealistic and unsupported by big money without worrying about strategic voting).

Answer 3

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. --That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

I find it fitting that you should choose to use a French term, given that France was instrumental in our first coup d'etat, the Revolutionary War.

Do you believe that our current government has become "absolute Despotism"? If so, then it is your duty to throw off that government. This can be achieved a few different ways, the most civil being at the ballot box.

Answer 4

I am not saying the Government is perfect in any way but that would never solve any problem. Just think of what they are dealing with on a day to day basis. And then look at just a few things they have done in the past...

Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts. None of these countries is today paying even the interest on its remaining debts to the United States.

When the franc was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who propped it up, and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of Paris. I was there. I saw it. When distant cities are hit by earthquakes, it is the United States that hurries in to help. This spring, 59 American communities were flattened by tornadoes. Nobody helped.

When the railways of France, Germany and India were breaking down through age, it was the American who rebuilt them. When the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central went broke, nobody loaned them an old caboose. Both are still broke.

I can name you 5,000 times when the Americans raced to the help of other people in trouble. Can you name me even one time when someone else raced to the Americans in trouble? I don't think there was outside help even during the San Francisco earthquake.

For this they should be stepped on? thrown out? What so YOU could step in and do a better job!? Politics are far more than throwing your weight around and making up laws to force people into line. Our forefathers escaped a monarchy government and I for 1 do not wish to go back to one.

Answer 5

Good luck with that.

Typically the first thing that happens in a revolution is the killing off of the "elites." (This would include people rich enough to own and knowledgeable enough to use computers.)

The first wave of killings would be followed by a second wave. (This is usually when the more radical "reformers" kill off the people who came up with the idea in the first place, typically because the first group are seen as not "hardcore" enough.)

The U.S. was very fortunate in having a relatively peaceful organization process the first time around. (Compare France, China, South Africa.) It's not likely that we would be so lucky a second time.

So, again, good luck with that.

Answer 6

And who is going to head this coup? Me, you? You do realize that means a whole new government and constitution, the complete abolishment of the one we have now, and while we are not abiding by it, it is still a great ideal.

No, a coup is not in order here, but new people in power most definately. Vote your heart, don't vote party.

Answer 7

Coup d'etat involves the military, and instates a military dictatorship..

Answer 8

First of all, are you ready to be killed maimed or the victim of any number of atrocities that go hand-in-hand with war. or do you wish someone else would do it while you sit in the relative safety of your favorite coffee shop?

The peaceful transition of power is the proudest example this country has to the rest of the world.

We just have to remember the enormous responsibility that we have in holding our elected officials accountable.

Historically Democracies (I know we started out as a Republic) are a stones throw away from a dictatorship.

Answer 9

see links:

Coup d'etat? Nothing I will comment to in a public forum, and if you don't live near Fort Worth, TX, then it is something you will never know from me.

Answer 10

to the person above me: "instates"???? what does that mean??


edit: In answer to your question, though, : it ain't gonna happen! Before you write me off, though, check out some of my answers. You'll see where I'm coming from.

Thankx to john s. for the history lesson. I don't think our forefathers ever had an inkling of what it would mean in future generations to overthrow the old and install a new government.

Answer 11

Me, but we must elliminate the Illuminatis who control the congress and the industry and the press, and much more....

Their are forging the "right major crisis " they need to make the Nations swallow their New World order.