Who Would Make A Stand?

Posted by truecap
Isn't revolution against a tight government the foundation the US was built on? Too much governmental power, control and oppression has always led to people standing up for what they believe in.
It's time.

Posted by Rabbit

The government is owned by private corporations and citizens continue to patronize those corporations, thereby perpetuating the cycle.

Posted by feby16aqua
I would be a nurse or medic for the revolution side if it had to be like that...or both sides.

Posted by djbuck1
Historically in such scenarios, the outcome is usually determined by which side the military supports. That support can be active or passive. If the military identifies with and/or takes no action against the revolutionaries, then the revolution will succeed fairly quickly. If, however, the military continues to respond to orders from the government, you have a swift defeat of the revolution or a protracted guerilla war.

Posted by DonAmanMarat
In prior decades students were a major force for social change. They played an active role in the Civil Rights movement, Free Speech and against Vietnam War.

Posted by strudel
if it happens. you've become a third world country.

Posted by PVandJelleh
I'll be watching on tv from Canada.

Posted by djbuck1

. . . and then flee "at the first whiff of grapeshot."

Posted by Rabbit

I'm imaging Redcoats and their field cannons lined up in formation in a field somewhere across from a ragged group of hipster-ish "students" all gabbing on their phones and trying to walk (albeit painfully) in their skinny jeans...

Posted by djbuck1
Historically in such scenarios, the outcome is usually determined by which side the military supports. That support can be active or passive. If the military identifies with and/or takes no action against the revolutionaries, then the revolution will succeed fairly quickly. If, however, the military continues to respond to orders from the government, you have a swift defeat of the revolution or a protracted guerilla war.
Parading around in the streets and chanting or posting diatribes and pictures on the net is a far, far cry from picking up a weapon and engaging armed adversaries. Let's be candid. Most of you have never handled a weapon in your lives and are, in fact "anti-gun." You'd (sensibly) flee at the first shots fired.
If you seriously think that protests and postings will bring down the government, then you are living in a fantasy land.