Not a coup.
It’s called mass democracy, something our Founding Fathers opposed and for good reason.
And it isn’t silent either. They’re in your face. Every damn day.
This had little to do with democracy. This was a coupe by the oligarchs. The people would not had voted for Obamacare or homo-marriage. The oligarchs pushed those through. The people are being duped, but that’s also on the oligarchs.
(T)he first step in the revolution by the working class is to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class to win the battle of democracy.And so we end up with an historic mess, because Marx was a madman.
The proletariat will use its political supremacy to wrest, by degree, all capital from the bourgeoisie, to centralize all instruments of production in the hands of the State, i.e., of the proletariat organized as the ruling class; and to increase the total productive forces as rapidly as possible.
Of course, in the beginning, this cannot be effected except by means of despotic inroads on the rights of property, and on the conditions of bourgeois production; by means of measures, therefore, which appear economically insufficient and untenable, but which, in the course of the movement, outstrip themselves, necessitate further inroads upon the old social order, and are unavoidable as a means of entirely revolutionizing the mode of production.
When the elected officials and beauracrats act against the will of the citizens, it’s not democracy.
and folks really think there will be an election in ‘16....