http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/05/02/poll-shows-2-percent-voters-think-armed-revolution-might-be-needed/

The only reason I can see why people might feel this way is because they believe their government has abused its powers, refused to listen to the people, taken what is rightfully theirs and has continuously worked toward eliminating their means of resistance.  But then again, I could be wrong.

Fear! Tyranny! Immanent Doom!

 

Puh-leeze. I don't trust the government at all and I don't think we're anywhere near armed revolution territory. What we have is a bunch of fear mongers on both sides of the isle that are crying loudly how horrible things are, we're circling the drain, headed down the tube any moment now... and that a vote for them is a vote for Salvation! 

If this was a tyrannical government it wouldn't be hemming and hawing over the AWB or even over confiscation provisions. If this government wanted our guns gone they'd be pushing for making our guns ~gone~  not just background checks. 

How ridiculous. Anyone who thinks this country is so far gone that we need to start killin' probably hasn't traveled in the 3rd world and seen what it looks like when things really ~are~ bad.

What we have is a paranoid, fearful and naively idealistic population that mistakes not getting ~exactly~ what it wants for "our way of life is being threatened." Agreeing and disagreeing have long since taken a back seat to winning.

People think things are getting bad? That's only because the have ~no idea~ how bad it can get and think a slight discomfort, an idealistic disagreement, is enough to warrant outrage.

I don't trust the American Government but I have decent handle on why it does the goofy stuff it does so I'm not particularly afraid of it. The American People, on the other hand, are terrifying in their collective ignorance and lazy willingness to be misled instead of actually DOING the hard work of democracy.

I think incrementalism is alive and well.  You can't just come in and burn the Constitution over night.  It has to dismantled slowly, but surely.  Give a little here.  Give a little there.  Before you know it, you've given your liberty away for the sake of the collective.  I think there are many people today worried about that more than some dictator being elected over night.  Look at Bloomberg and how he's slowly taking away people's ability to choose, basing his agenda on the premise that people are unable to make good decisions for themselves in regard to health and personal safety.  His stop and frisk policy is extremely racist, as the majority of those being stopped and frisked are rarely ever white.  With the National Guard roaming Boston during the Boston Bombing incident, other governors are making public statements that using the National Guard is a very viable option to battling the increased crime rate in certain cities.  In states with open carry laws, people are being stopped on the streets, arrested and having their firearms confiscated for exercising their right to carry.  Veterans are finding it more and more difficult to own firearms.  Parents are having their children confiscated by CPS because they wanted a 2nd opinion and refused medical services at a hospital.  Parents are losing their rights to homeschool their own children.  All the while we watch our own government hand cash over to countries known to be terrorist breeding grounds.  Nothing happens overnight.  It's a slow, systemic process that slowly peels away our rights as individuals, like you peel layers off of an onion.  People are fed up because they recognize that it's happening.

I think incrementalism is alive and well.  You can't just come in and burn the Constitution over night.  It has to dismantled slowly, but surely.  Give a little here.  Give a little there.  Before you know it, you've given your liberty away for the sake of the collective.  I think there are many people today worried about that more than some dictator being elected over night.  Look at Bloomberg and how he's slowly taking away people's ability to choose, basing his agenda on the premise that people are unable to make good decisions for themselves in regard to health and personal safety.  His stop and frisk policy is extremely racist, as the majority of those being stopped and frisked are rarely ever white.  With the National Guard roaming Boston during the Boston Bombing incident, other governors are making public statements that using the National Guard is a very viable option to battling the increased crime rate in certain cities.  In states with open carry laws, people are being stopped on the streets, arrested and having their firearms confiscated for exercising their right to carry.  Veterans are finding it more and more difficult to own firearms.  Parents are having their children confiscated by CPS because they wanted a 2nd opinion and refused medical services at a hospital.  Parents are losing their rights to homeschool their own children.  All the while we watch our own government hand cash over to countries known to be terrorist breeding grounds.  Nothing happens overnight.  It's a slow, systemic process that slowly peels away our rights as individuals, like you peel layers off of an onion.  People are fed up because they recognize that it's happening.

Incrementalism?

Of course its alive and well. And ~everyone~ uses it, not just the liberals.

So who should we go shoot? Who are we going to overthrow and what are we going to put in their place?

Saying "I wanna be free!" and doing it in a way that you actually will be free are 2 ~hugely~ different things. If you are in the camp that thinks armed revolution is coming then studying previous revolutions (and not just ours) is a really good idea. Most of them do NOT end well for the people.

Throw out the politicians by voting them off instead.  The only way an armed revolution would work is if the military was onboard.  But unfortunately, the military is being gutted and corrupted from within by the current politicians in charge.