"I have a very strict gun control policy: if there's a gun around, I want to be in control of it."
- Clint Eastwood
The other problem with the "let Obama win and we can start over" that these armchair resistance leaders don't think about is the piles and piles of bodies it takes to get there ... women, children, elderly, and most of a generation of young men will die. Many in agonizing ways.
650,000 died between 1861-1865, a second civil war will dwarf that by at least a factor of 10. That was out of a total population of about 25 Million so 2.6% so that would be 9,100,000. Nine point one million people dead. And frankly we have better weapons and more tightly packed cities so it would likely be even higher.
Modern liberalism is based on the idea that reality is obligated to conform to one's beliefs because; "I have the right to believe whatever I want".
"Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
"Every time something really bad happens, people cry out for safety, and the government answers by taking rights away from good people."
-Penn Jillette
A World Without Guns <- Great Read!
There is no rebuilding from scratch, we start with what we have now and move forward. Going backward means every single person suffers needlessly and conservatives most of all.
We've gone backward far enough but probably not far enough for the liberals. It is time for the adults to take control and that means putting the GOP in the Presidency, House, and Senate this year and in the coming years putting more conservatives and some libertarians at the helm.
People are not basically good so any fantasy about burning it all down and starting over is crap. You'll turn this entire nation into a ghetto where the ends will truly justify the means. I don't think any right thinking person wants wholesale murder to be the rule of the day and that is exactly what you'll get if you burn it down.
That will be the straw that broke the camel's back. There will be a large number of those who will be unwilling. They can tax the shit out of us for a few more months. If Obama wins again, you may be right and he may try a move on the 2nd. That would be his biggest miscalculation IMO.
You're exactly right. Armchair resistance leaders also forget that THEIR families will be part of that slaughter. Some people have this stupid idea that they'll survive the onslaught wholly in tact and that just isn't going to happen.
You want to test it? Go to City Park tonight and see how you fare against the gangs when you try to take their turf. That'll wake your ass up if they don't kill you.
So since it's considered a tax can you be jailed for tax evasion for not paying it?
please tell me the alternative?
1: vote 3rd party so Obama gets the majority vote and wins...obamacare stays in place, probably appoints another SCOTUS justice or two, and we all have probably 20 years of liberal rulings.
2: don't vote, same thing as option 1.
3: vote for obama thinking the ship will sink faster, depending on your condition most people will fall into deep poverty and rely on the .gov for everything. police state, don't comply, get locked up, don't see your kids...etc etc. goes downtown. maybe a revolution, but more than likely not well enough coordinated and too little too late.
4: vote Romney, MAYBE he will do something to turn things around, repeal obamacare, appoint new SCOTUS justices to maintain the current slight favor to the conservative side...maybe something will come up and a liberal justice will have to retire. Romeny can work with the house, fight against the senate and try to get something positive done about the economy with putting us into deeper debt...maybe even spend less than what is coming in. these are things he said he would do, and definitely the opposite of what Obama is doing and would do for the next 4 years.
The unknown is more intriguing than the known.
If you don't believe my quote, go look at a victorias secret magazine, then a playboy and tell me you aren't more curious to see what is under the VS models lingerie than what you can see in the playboy.
Thoughts on this view point for the decision?
http://www.ijreview.com/2012/06/9398...ith-obamacare/
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