[central_va]

"Were the Founders alive today, I wholeheartedly believe they would be pushing for and demanding armed revolution. There is no way they would settle for anything anywhere near what we have now."

A revolution redux solves nothing. You would still have half the population socialist. A better solution would be to divide that nation into free and socialist along the red-blue lines we have now.

[Durus]

I would rather have a revolution redux than a civil war redux.

[brent13a]

A revolution redux solves nothing. You would still have half the population socialist. A better solution would be to divide that nation into free and socialist along the red-blue lines we have now.

I hate to point out the obvious but if the 'free' were fighting the 'socialist' (for arguments sake) then the very definition of revolution or armed war would mean that some of the population would cease to exist. As history has shown the ones to suffer the worst casualties are the socialists. So while there would exist a contingent of them in the end, the free society would obviously win and the others would be driven to extinction. Unfortunately, 'revolution' is another word for 'purge'.
I mean, when you're getting chemo and radiation are you wanting to eradicate all the cancer or just most of it? Do those treatments make the body sick? Yes. But the end result is a much healthier body.....at least that is the goal.
So goes what this country needs, as based on the Founding Fathers' Principles: we need a good dose of chemo and radiation treatments to our body-politic.
Take that as you will.

[MrB]

If the gov’t teat weren’t available,
the “half” that are socialist would soon dwindle down to 10%,
as people have to work to eat, they attain wealth and self-respect and a sense of independence.