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American Revolution

Name: Anonymous 2006-05-30 19:00

So really, what are the chances of an uprising in modern day America?  Not only do you have police everywhere, along with National Guard/Reserves and regular military bases throughout the country, but anyone that dares to fight  is an automatic criminal/militia/fanatic/terrorist.  Of course that means you're judged by the very rules you're trying to overthrow... but what chance is there that someone could overthrow the country's entire rule system and start from scatch, or even have the support of the majority of the people who watch TV and see everything thtrough a filtered media that puts negative spin in order to dissuade the efforts of a revolution?  The problem is the majority of the population is content and complacent.  Revolutions occur when the majority is poor, pissed off, and tired of the current system.  It would require people to have no access to their books, television, movies, computers, video games, or anything else to distract them.  It would require wealth to diminish to nothing, houses to lose their value, and utilities and public programs to become completely ineffective.  I don't see any of this happening unless the US is assraped by the Middle East or communist Asia.   

Name: Anonymous 2006-06-01 11:28

that was a minor flaw, and the first time it happened in over 200 years.  and the founding fathers actually did that on purpose. they gave more votes to smaller states population wise, by giveing them the automatic 2 senate representitives.  your state gives electoral the same ammount of electoral votes as it does congressional representatives.  Also there is the fact that the state constitution decides whether the winner of the state gets all the electoral votes from the state, or the votes are divided the same way the voters are (ie.  if gore got 2/3 of the votes in the state he would get 2/3 of the electoral votes).  this is designed to give small states more power so they won't just be overrun by the large ones.  the constitution is designed with that in mind.  and that has nothing to do with an electoral representative going and voting for the oposite person his state voted for.

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