If the government overtly turns into an oligarchical and authoritarian dictatorship in the brazen open, it will get very interesting in these United States.
I don’t think it’ll be overly overt, but I don’t think it will be particularly hidden if it does.
What happened to ACORN, especially regarding voter & voter-registration fraud? Virtually nothing, right?
What’s happened to the Congress who pushed TARP through, who pushed ObamaCare through, who has openly laughed & ridiculed people asking them to Constitutionally justify their actions? Who lie/cheat/steal on taxes? (Hell, who drunkenly drive off a bridge and leave their passenger to drown!?) Who gave aid and comfort to America’s enemies, it could be argued in Viet Nam, but in the here-now it is in full view with their pushing illegal-alien amnesty? Jack Shit.
What’s happened to the Supreme Court which declared that it’s A-OK for the government to take your property and give it to some other private entity? Who has denied ‘standing’ to every Citizen who doubts Obama’s eligibility? Who allows/condones no-knock warrants and SWAT raids of personal homes> Who takes the Constitution and declares that what it says is not what it says, as in Caulder v. Bull in 1798 and in the two centuries hence culminating in the repudiation of any state sovereignty declaring that the states could not punish the murder of their youngest citizens, the unborn, in Roe v. Wade. (There’s also the “judicial review” of laws, which appears not a single place in the Constitution.)
What’s happened to the Executive branch who declares that full-auto firearms are not allowable to the general population despite the unambiguous language of the 2nd amendment? that allows & encourages their police to violate every provision of the 4th amendment? (The warrants are to ISSUE upon probable cause, not to be EXCEPT on probable cause.) That pursues a “War on Drugs” through a federal prohibition on substances... which, the last time we did that, took a Constitutional Amendment; the “war on Drugs” has no Constitutional backing as Prohibition did.
My point, rather long-winded the introduction might be, is that a government as laid out by the Constitution would be an utterly alien thing to the experience of the American Citizen. So much so that they would likely think it ‘Anarchy’ and clamor for even a tyrannical government to be over them.