I am sorry, but I don’t see anything “fringe” about the talk and/or consideration of a possible revolution/civil war. It saddens me to think that it might happen, but I can see the shadows of it growing everyday. And I am not the only one even those of the right and/or conservatives aren’t the only ones that see what could be coming.
Pat Caddell: Democratic Pollster Warns of Pre-Revolutionary Anger Levels
I am old enough that I well remember the Great Depression.
I am not taking up for Drudge or agreeing or disagreeing with the premise of the article.
But I will point out that during the Great Depression, the US was primarily an agricultural nation.
Most people still lived across the road from Grandma, who knew everything that went on in the family.
The nation, as a whole, was very deeply religious. Blacks even more so than whites.
So stories of immorality or dishonesty immediately found their way to Mom and Dad.
today we have a huge percentage of our population who don’t even know who Dad is, who are so mobile that they are rarely close to Mom and who have little or no religion.
If you don’t think that the family had a huge influence on how people in the 1930’s reacted to the hard times and if you don’t realize that the changes in our family structure will make a big difference to the worse this time...stick around. You have a lesson to learn.
Grandma living across the street does make a difference if Grandma is as strict and as straight laced as the Grandma’s of the 1930’s.
I welcome a revolution.
I would like to see American history written that Americans in the early 21st century revolted against a federal government that had grown so large and become so intrusive as to be incomprehensible and completely at odds with the foundation of ideals set for the United States.
Here are revolutionary reforms that would usher in a new golden age for the American civilization:
1. Enact the FairTax and concurrently repeal the 16th Amendment. By conservative estimates this would provide an immediate boost of 10% to GDP and start the process of repatriating $20 trillion in offshore capital. It would revive the manufacturing and export base of the United States and out the nation on a path of greater freedom in line with the ideas of the Founders.
2. Repeal the 17 Amendment with an additional amendment that would buttress state rights, ensure states seat US Senators, establish a hybrid approach of voting in Senators with State legislatures nominating candidates for US Senator who would then campaign for votes from the respective State voters. The repeal and finetuning provided by this new amendment would halt the excessive centralization of Federal power over states by halting most federal mandates and thereby slow to a crawl the growth and intrusion of federal power over states if not reverse it through a process of decentralization.
3. A reform of the Federal Reserve to include transparency in operations such as discount windows, dollar swaps with foreigh central banks, depoitary accounts that are potentially bubble creating, and overall investigations into the destructive actions on the value of the US dollar.