Plenty of triggers in place, that’s for sure.
Yes.
Yes, clearly. A free people who once had a voice in how they were governed have entirely lost their voice. Only a minority, constituted of the very wealthy or activist members of “victim” groups, have any sway over representatives in Washington. History says this cannot go on forever. Revolt is actually more likely here than in countries that have never known freedom or representative government, because some Americans know what they’ve lost.
“What we done we done for Dixie and nuthin’ else.” —”The Long Riders”
I do not think so.
We are however, in a period of transition.
We need manufacturing. The Dems and GOP both, seem to have bought full-on into exporting American manufacturing to China.
China needs to buy things. Not make things.
Enough.
Bring back US manufacturing, and return American jobs.
If there is not a party currently supporting such policies, then Sarah Palin and other patriotic Americans should start one.
Buy American.
I would argue that Obama saw the revolution in the faces of tens of thousands on the Mall one cold snowy day. He illegally deployed the IRS to destroy the organizations.
He thwarted the revolution and there is none really on the horizon. The zeal, the fire in the belly is spent.
By and large, conservatives are apathetic
Yes. Only a couple of things are necessary to ignite it:
1. A charismatic leader
2. A precipitating event
And it’s on ...
The Founding Fathers would be dismayed that it's still "pre-"
I'd suggest that the threshold has been met with no adequate resolution on the horizon.
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.
How will we know when it is time?
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.
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”...
>>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.
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.
I recently read “The Way of Men,” by Jack Donovan. Great little book on many levels.
His take on what it will take to turn the country around is a total reset after further decline creates enough disillusionment, and a crisis then ushers in chaos, and small, brutal gangs of men rule locally for an extended period after the State has become impotent.
He says so much more than that, and says it succinctly and well, but that is the only way he sees things going into the future. In his opinion, the State and the Global, corporate economy - which meets the needs of women, but not men - is not based on a sustainable understanding of human nature, and the fault lines are already appearing, and will worsen until it all falls apart. This is compatible with the way my thinking has evolved in recent years.
The whole world is in a pre-holocaust state right now.
Obama is going to have a worse legacy than Adolph.
Pre-Civil War II.
I’d say yes.
Many things recently have made me nearly shooting mad.