In the past, persons were loyal to their states first, then the Union. That has certainly changed.
But, I keep hearing this murmur of CW or somethings similar. I just have to sigh. If people don't have the courage to stop voting dem/gop tickets or actually change politics from the local level. Where the hell are they gonna get the courage to enter a CW?
“Where the hell are they gonna get the courage to enter a CW?”
When the US dollar is worth a Weimar mark, or a Soviet ruble. When a ‘politically incorrect’ school lunch is not merely confiscated, but grounds for arrest. When the risk of one’s own death or imprisonment is more attractive than the certainty of poverty and and servitude for one’s children.
How quickly could it turn? Here is a classic Stalinist dictator addressing a trained and orchestrated hive of ‘comrades’. In less than ten minutes, the dictator is a fugitive and the hive is a swarm of individuals. Four days later the dictator was bullet riddled cold meat.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcRWiz1PhKU&feature=relmfu
Trostsky once said something along the lines that “A successful revolution is impossible until conditions make one inevitable’.