[MtnClimber]

I think history in other countries show that things may have to get really bad before people risk their lives to fight the corrupt system.

[RoosterRedux]

Well, things have gotten so bad that instead of a conservative resurgence, we will need a conservative counter-revolution.

[alloysteel]

This can go either way, you know. While the time may be ripe for a conservative resurgence, it is also equally ripe for total chaos and civil war, plunging the country into a severe dystopia. The summer soldiers and the sunshine patriots will melt back into the landscape, rather than to stay for the long march, making the remaining minority the ones to shoulder full responsibility for simultaneously re-educating the rest and rebuilding the structure of what was once the “United States of America”.

Not an impossible task, but what has been made much more difficult.

[buckalfa]

"I think history in other countries show that things may have to get really bad before people risk their lives to fight the corrupt system."

A conservative revival will only occur in concert witn a revival of Christianity. That wll only come about through a tangible threat to our existence.

[Ransomed]

Yup, human nature and history seem to indicate that upheavals don’t occur if people are generally fat, entertained and comfortable. And we are the most of all of these conditions in all of human history.

Freegards

[aquila48]

“I think history in other countries show that things may have to get really bad before people risk their lives to fight the corrupt system.”

Absolutely! And we’re a long ways from that. I’m always amazed at how much crap most of us will put up with before we’re motivated to act. And by the time that happens it will be too late because the powers that be have things under such tight control that they can squash any nascent rebellion before it gets out of hand.

Look at Venezuela or Cuba or North Korea or Iran.

I’m trying to think of a truly tyrannical regime that was overthrown strictly by internal forces. I really can’t come up with any. Even the French Revolution came about because the king got too soft hearted. A true tyrant would have never let that get out of hand.

As for the American revolution, that was more a war of independence than one againt a native tyrant.