Some points...
1. The United States held elections during the Civil War, both World Wars, the Vietnam war, and both Gulf wars. The arguments at the time were about letting the American people decide what the direction should be? In 2004, it was about deciding whether the people supported Bush and staying in Iraq, or Kerry and changing direction. Obama should not presume that we don't want a change in leadership, he should be asking the people if they want a change in leadership. Making an argument today that the times are too tough to change leadership stands in opposition to all of our prior history.
2. Elections for President are State affairs. The answer to the question of "who will stop him" is the states will stop him. All it will take is for someone to declare their candidacy, and for states to hold their own separate elections between candidates. Once the Electoral College produces a winner, the question will be whether Obama recognizes that winner as the new President, or if he chooses to deny by force the newly elected President from taking power. Obama will not have a ruling power over the sovereign states to prevent them from holding their own elections. There are too many "red" states to expect all the governors and legislatures to just roll over and take it.
That's why I don't expect the flash point to be the 2016 election. That would be too overt and emotional. I expect the flash point to occur after the election, when Obama has a chance to organize his militarized insurgency from the staffers of the bureaucracies that he armed. All Obama will need is for the new president to begin to overturn his legacy changes, and Obama will strike.
-PJ
We cannot continue to operate in a state of Normalcy Bias.
We suffered a coup.
History teaches that you cannot stop tyrants or those who perpetrated a coup by civil means.
The states could adopt and pass every Amendment in Levin’s book to stop the Federal Beast - and it will mean nothing because this regime has already demonstrated that it will not abide by the Rule of Law.
It will use force to impose it’s will and destroy anyone it thinks is a threat to itself.
Such is the nature of tyrants, and the nature of coups.