Gendarme wrote: 30 years is nothing; it is one mere generation.
I guess this is only in this generation, but I thought that was most relevant. I still do.
Furthermore, there is no possibility of a peaceful revolt succeeding if the government decides to refuse to listen to its people. Your analysis is biased as it is only including successful "revolutions". What about all the people that wanted to revolt but couldn't?
There can be no govenment if there is no ppl who support it. Government and the ppl are two sides of the same coin, and thus define each other like complementary instituions. All history will tell you that, be it peacefull or violent revolutions. There is no exeption from this rule, cos all despots have been taken down, soner or later.
What will the people of Europe do if EU begins to turn into one giant police state if they don't have any power at all to union and stand against the government? What will the people of USA do if their constitution finally becomes obsolete and it too turns into a police state?
As far as I am concerned, USA is only a few steps away from being a facist police state. We could have a lengthy discussion about that, and I have good arguments to support my view on this. That is why it will be a revolt pretty soon, like I said; hopefully a peacefull one.
These are valid concerns, and I would argue that we are in fact heading towards 1984 and doing so quite rapidly. However, even if you do not believe that your freedoms should be not taken for granted with blind trust in your government.
good points, and I agree with you on most of it, just not the means to change government.
Only if it is certain that the government will be benevolent for the forseeable future can I begin to sympathize with your dispraise for guns, but this is far from reality and if this is what you and most others who share your view on guns believe then we have bigger things to discuss
As I said above, the goverment can only govern on behalf of the ppl who elected them, or who they serve. The revolt in Polen started with strikes, and spread. Good example on peacefull revolt. There are plenty of other examples you know; South Africa, and the civil rights movement in USA - all about surpression of black ppl.
Could b we have bigger things to discuss? I dont know
Hippocrits are the worst of animals. I love elifants.