reply to post by DaveakaRNG
The problem with "just stop" is that nobody wants to do it. People will complain and moan about problems but when it comes to actually giving up the
luxuries that they have in order to create a better life and world, there is little they would do.
How many times have people said "just stop"? How many times have people peacefully protested and everyone saw them, but did nothing? How much change
did it cause? None.
Even if everyone did just stop, without some issue of force, the current regime isn't going to just step down. They are going to become more strict.
They are going to use the actions of the people to enforce strict laws and raise more taxes to make up for the financial decline, and in the end, we
will only be worse off than we were before.
Honestly, I don't even think a natural disaster would do much to change the mindsets of people.
The fact is, the revolution will be violent and as g146541 said, it won't be pretty or romantic in any way. It is the only way. The sad fact is that
people will never open their eyes unless there is a crucial moment staring them in their face.
In an ideal situation, this is how I feel a revolution will play out:
1.Riots and protests begin.
2.Outside of those riots, a single fringe group will start by causing some form of devastation. Depending on which fringe group, people may die.
3. Government will compensate for the moment of weakness by declaring an emergency or passing another draconian law.
4. More people will awaken to the madness, but government will be quick to pit the blame on terrorists.
At that point something should happen but if it does not, things will take a lot longer.
5. The fringe group responsible for the devastation, needs to make public their reasoning and the fact that they are indeed not terrorists. They need
to point out the blatant lies that the MSM and government perpetrated against them, and how if they found it so easy to do it at that junction, what
was stopping them from doing it in the past?
6. Once the word is spread far and wide enough - the REAL protest begins as people begin to march on DC en masse, demanding a response from
government. More than likely they will be armed, but peaceful.
7. At that point the government will either step down and the people will rebuild, or the government will open fire upon the people, and war will
begin.
Now, the people will win. This is a given. Why? Because the people who are fighting will be fighting among civilians. Should the government choose to
use their high yield weaponry and kill innocent bystanders in the process, it will only cause more and more people to join in the fighting. Not to
mention the fact that most of the military will in fact side with the people.
The real issue comes when the fighting is over. How will things be decided. Well, someone will probably have to come forward, probably the leader of
the original fringe group since he/she was the one who began it all, and if that person believes in the freedom they are fighting for, they will
declare an interim government based upon the Constitution and Declaration of Independence. This government would remain only until things were able to
be reorganized and elections were able to be had once again. Think along the lines of delegates from the states as were present during the original
Congress.
The rest is up to chance and resilience. All laws would have to be reread and redone in order to determine their constitutionality. Presidential
statutes and other unconstitutional laws would be thrown out immediately. The tax code would be destroyed and reestablished in a new, understandable
format. Our troops around the world would be called home to maintain order, guard our borders from the threat of outsiders, and help rebuild from the
chaos if there was bloodshed.
In the end there would be a lot of work, and it could take up to a decade to get things rolling once again. However, there would be freedom and
security. To me, that is what is most important in the end.