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To: FrankR
I agree that if the GOP goes in "business as usual", we're probably still in trouble. But I don't agree that we are doomed; at some point the people will rise up and demand sanity in leadership.

An interesting idea. Do we have any historians out there who can list 18th - 20th century uprisings and what became of them?

13 posted on 07/23/2010 12:21:02 PM PDT by pabianice
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To: pabianice
An interesting idea. Do we have any historians out there who can list 18th - 20th century uprisings and what became of them?

The book How To Stage a Military Coup (Hebditch & Connor, ISBN 978-3-60239-375-2) has an appendix listing approximately 150 military coups from the 1960s to date. Most were failures. However, these were not popular uprisings. In most cases they were a would-be dictator trying to replace an incumbent dictator.

My own book (see tag line) lists a few revolutions, some successful and some unsuccessful, and discusses the reasons for success or failure.

16 posted on 07/23/2010 12:44:12 PM PDT by JoeFromSidney ( New book, RESISTANCE TO TYRANNY. More @ www.book-resistancetotyranny.com)
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