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Is America In A Pre-Revolutionary State This July 4th?
FoxNews.com ^ | July 2, 2013 | Roger L. Simon

Posted on 07/02/2013 6:21:52 AM PDT by Biggirl

As we approach July 4, 2013, is America in a pre-revolutionary state? Are we headed for a Tahrir Square of our own with the attendant mammoth social turmoil, possibly even violence.

(Excerpt) Read more at nation.foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: america; cwii; july4th; prerevolutionary
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To: IronJack

You got it.


21 posted on 07/02/2013 6:35:37 AM PDT by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network
I do not think so. We are however, in a period of transition.

Yep, the pendulum is starting to swing back. That's good.

We're in for change but we're not a bunch of emotional idiots looking for violence. That's who democrats are - and Occupy - and every other brain dead Marxist and inferior culture.

22 posted on 07/02/2013 6:35:54 AM PDT by GOPJ (... liberal anger - - the privileged wheeze of entitled brats ... Greenfield)
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To: Biggirl
"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism,...."

I'd suggest that the threshold has been met with no adequate resolution on the horizon.

23 posted on 07/02/2013 6:36:09 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

Keep a close eye on her.


24 posted on 07/02/2013 6:36:10 AM PDT by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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To: Paladin2

I am CONFIDENT that will change in the future.


25 posted on 07/02/2013 6:37:41 AM PDT by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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To: Biggirl
No we are no where near a pre-revolutionary state right now. The GOP, the conservatives are done for. They are toast. Pull out the burkas, its just a matter of time.

Electronic voting machines are easy to hijack. The technocrats rule the roost. Sarah Palin can go pound sand for all they care. There are no legal means to stop the left from taking every election from now until doomsday. The GOP is too stupid to take back control of voting machines.

From the point of view of the left, they own the show, they have mind controlled the illiterati and paid off the minorities with low cost cell phones, eternal unemployment benefits and free health care.

As long as the left controls the masses, those who bleed for our country are throwing away their lives needlessly.

26 posted on 07/02/2013 6:38:02 AM PDT by x_plus_one (The gov't is supposed to be your servant. Your are not supposed to be its wage slave.)
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To: Biggirl

Standing up for Freedom is one thing - and we support that - but violence? Nah, that’s a liberal wet dream concocted by the FBI and the Southern Poverty Law Center. It’s also the delusion the IRS was functioning under...


27 posted on 07/02/2013 6:38:52 AM PDT by GOPJ (... liberal anger - - the privileged wheeze of entitled brats ... Greenfield)
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To: Biggirl

How will we know when it is time?


28 posted on 07/02/2013 6:39:02 AM PDT by Mashood
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To: x_plus_one

“No we are no where near a pre-revolutionary state right now. The GOP, the conservatives are done for. They are toast. Pull out the burkas, its just a matter of time.
Electronic voting machines are easy to hijack. The technocrats rule the roost. Sarah Palin can go pound sand for all they care. There are no legal means to stop the left from taking every election from now until doomsday. The GOP is too stupid to take back control of voting machines.

From the point of view of the left, they own the show, they have mind controlled the illiterati and paid off the minorities with low cost cell phones, eternal unemployment benefits and free health care.

As long as the left controls the masses, those who bleed for our country are throwing away their lives needlessly.”

Hate to burst your bubble, but as the saying goes, “when push comes to sholve”.

In other words, this WILL NOT END WELL for the left.


29 posted on 07/02/2013 6:40:49 AM PDT by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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To: Biggirl

I cannot see another revolution happening, nor would I want to. The best outcome would be a breakdown of the federal government with all of its over-reaching programs and a return to localism. Then, individual states could do what the feds refuse to do....protect the population from invasion and institute policies that bring back self-sufficiency and manufacturing, and put education back to communities and health care back to individuals.


30 posted on 07/02/2013 6:40:51 AM PDT by grania
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To: x_plus_one

No, the left is not an all-pervasive Big Brother that has permanently marginalized conservatives. They do not possess that level of power.

And don’t conflate the GOP with conservatives.


31 posted on 07/02/2013 6:40:56 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Biggirl

Yes. There are so many societal trip wires strewn all over the place that it is starting to look like a spider’s web.

Not “if”, but “when”...


32 posted on 07/02/2013 6:42:05 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (I will not comply.)
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To: GOPJ

Am I asking for violence, NO.

What we could see is a peaceful effort to take the country back.


33 posted on 07/02/2013 6:42:10 AM PDT by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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To: Dead Corpse

You got that right.


34 posted on 07/02/2013 6:42:51 AM PDT by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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To: Biggirl

>>Are we in a pre-revolutionary state right now?

Not yet. The people who want a return to a self-sufficient America are too busy working and spending to risk their livelihoods in a revolt. They won’t even call out sick for a week to join in a general strike and mildly-violent protest. We may see some short (1-2 hours) Tea party protests in the Fall, but they will be extremely civil and well-behaved and meaningless.

A protest has to be messy with an underlying threat of direct action to be effective. Anything less is just a pep rally for “our” team and has no effect on the opposition.


35 posted on 07/02/2013 6:43:08 AM PDT by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: bert

Speaking for yourself? While many, by and large, are eager to set things right, how we resolve it is in question. Until we have a defined goal, most do not know what to do or even how to do it. The past methods for resolving discontent (elections) have been thwarted, so we need to find another way to be heard. I wish I knew what to do, cuz I’d be there.


36 posted on 07/02/2013 6:43:54 AM PDT by PuzzledInTX (Everything will be OK in the end. If it is not OK, then it isn't the end.)
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To: Bryanw92

Ever heard of the words, “going Galt?”


37 posted on 07/02/2013 6:45:00 AM PDT by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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To: Puppage
It happened once, it can happen again. Although, it will have to get much worse than today, I am afraid.

Actually twice if you count the War of Northern Aggression as one and the Revolutionary war as the other.

38 posted on 07/02/2013 6:45:30 AM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: seeker41
MSM is the likely culprit I suppose...

Coupled with lazy people who depend on Brian Williams, et al to TELL them how to think & feel.

Let's be honest......more people can readily tell you who got kicked off The Survivor Island than tell you the name of The Speaker of The House.It's just not important enough for them.....yet.

39 posted on 07/02/2013 6:45:52 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: Biggirl

No, we will just roll over and let the Left rape us, like we have for the last several decades.

Sure, there is plenty of anger, but I seriously don’t see any action to meaningfully resist the Left on the part of conservatives. The GOP is irrelevant and impotent. They have caved, like so many other so-called conservatives. Perhaps it’s good that I see no action, because planning for such action will necessarily require extreme secrecy to avoid a profligate government’s swift strike. Any revolution will have to be quick, thorough, and shockingly bloody. Most conservatives are too soft and queasy to stomach such a possibility.

But, I believe America is dead. Popular entertainment has lobotomized us.


40 posted on 07/02/2013 6:46:40 AM PDT by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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