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[–] bscoder 4 points -1 points (+3|-4) ago  (edited ago)

The US government is of its people. I don't know what sort of war you're talking about. Do you mean the nutters in some southern states who think US military training is an invasion of their states and are staging drive by attacks on those? I wouldn't worry about them too much. They are just some glenn beck fans or Fox News watchers or something.

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[–] WildThingSammiT [S] 0 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago 

The United States government is not of it's people. It's of corperate puppets whose only objective is to pass legislation in favour of their sponsers/masters. The people have started to realize this.

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[–] bscoder 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Yes, many of these new tea party people in the government are certainly bringing it down to a new low level, but I think it's pretty retarded to want to go to war against your own country. I assumed this was only a freaky tea party idea because they are so upset that Americans pay taxes and allow gays to marry, and that people can get health insurance. Are you a tea partier? If not, what are some of the specific acts of our government that make you want to go to war against it?

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[–] SirSandvich 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

It's a virtual impossibility that the US government will go to war with its own people, no matter how high tensions rise. It would be very difficult for either side to win without downgrading the US to Somalia-status, and nobody wants that. Besides, corporations and crony capitalists can't survive without consumers, and it's kinda hard to sell things to dead people.

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[–] Vhaine 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago  (edited ago)

No one cares. The cold hard truth is that the majority of people in this country and the world aren't really interested or capable of self determination. Given a choice, they'd willfully accept serfdom for a check. It doesn't even have to be a big check. Just enough to rent a shit hole, have a broken down car, and maybe afford a little distraction on the weekend. For large portions of the population, this is already reality. Their life is so full of distraction that nothing sinks in. We've replaced 'feudal lord' with the welfare state and even better is nobody calls you to war or burns you fields. Shit, you don't even have to have fields.

This continues until it won't. The second it doesn't the unwashed serfs need a new master and the cycle continues. When government can no longer meet it's obligations, change comes. The scary thing is just how many people will have to die before the reality sinks in.

I'm not worried about war in a total collapse situation. I'm worried about the complete and total breakdown of food system. The largest concentration of people unable to care for themselves in the most absolute basic way are in the major metropolitan areas. See New Orleans post Katrina. The same areas most vulnerable to all the nastiness you've ever rolled your eyes at in a disaster movie. The death toll would be catastrophic and that's without them even turning on themselves in a scarcity situation.

We have large populations of people who can't boil water...and don't even know why a person would need to. They've been cared for in the most fundamental of ways their entire lives. They aren't adults. They are 40 year old children watching Saturday morning cartoons. The realities of a place like Africa would be almost instantly fatal for them. It's for this reason, I'm convince the current political system will exist for exactly as long as it can provide food to the major metro areas.

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[–] DudeDude 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

another 16.09344km

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[–] AlphaTaco 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Problem is people haven't even gone about trying to change using the systems we have to affect change.

We have to vote ourlt the bad ,but people are lazy and any sort of start of resistance would first be met with police . then riots ,national gaurd, things settle down . repeat.
It would have to get Boston Massacre bad before the revolution spark could egnight.

Just my ยข2

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[–] Chanticleera 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

We have voted out the bad plenty of times. The problem is the system is sick. It's impossible for a clean, honest, normal person to proceed past local elections these days. So we vote out assholes, but vote new asshole in. And I'm talking both parties here. Because they are the same really. Both parties are screwing us. The only difference is the hole they are screwing.

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[–] Pawn 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago  (edited ago)

it will go really really far, most of us won't be alive then due to old age.

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[–] snake1118 2 points 1 point (+3|-2) ago 

I doubt in the near future things would escalate to a point of "all out war" but people today are becoming more aware of the apparent corruption in the system and this will have an impact on the elections in the future

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[–] ji 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago  (edited ago)

Ubiquitous entertainment is keeping us from taking it further than an angry word or two. We like our comfortable bubbles. Until they poke it we won't do anything of consequence.

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