Election or revolution?

[originalpckelly]

Poll question: Election or revolution?

:shrug:

[gateley]

1. Election. But I'm ready for a revolution. nt

[Occam Bandage]

2. Revolutions tend to be rather bloody and fail more often than they succeed,

especially if you count the high likelihood of a dictatorship rising out of the affair. As long as there are elections, the ballot is smarter than the bullet.

[iamthebandfanman]

5. depending on the 'dictator'

that might not be that bad.


ballots are only as smart as the people who cast them, and i know people who are far dumber than a bullet.

[Occam Bandage]

12. The problem with dictatorships is that you don't exactly get to pick.

[iamthebandfanman]

13. sure you do,

if your political sect starts and ends the revolution.

[Bob Dobbs]

10. There has not been an election since 1976.

In amerikka there are no ballots and we gave up without a fight to the fascists.

[Occam Bandage]

11. Funny, I'm pretty sure I remember participating in a few of them.

[iamthebandfanman]

18. ill be sure to tell the thousands

of disenfranchised voters who were illegal purged from voting the last two elections that you give a thumbs up and a-okay to the process. im sure theyll feel better.

[Occam Bandage]

Dupe.

[Occam Bandage]

22. Yep. I just said, "you know what isn't a problem? Voter purging."

I'm so glad you are talking about what I actually said, instead of what the strawman "everything's-ok" guy in your head said.

[Bob Dobbs]

20. And nobody counted your vote.

But thanks for being the apologist for power elite corruption.

[Occam Bandage]

23. No, I'm pretty sure they did. Dems won my district handily, just like polling showed they would.

[demnan]

3. Revolution

The velvet kind - we need real change.

[bdamomma]

4. if they keep on abusing us, and do not obey the will of the people

when we vote, and the results are not in our favor we should consider the other "R" word.

[csziggy]

6. I voted election but if they steal another one, I'm ready for a revolution

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87yq372R4Ts

[wildbilln864]

7. other....

selection!

[originalpckelly]

8. We need a revolution now, like never before.

[stillcool]

9. "We" the people are too fractured..

for a revolution. Secession might be a way out.

[Bob Dobbs]

14. You got that right.

What we would end up with would be civil war, and still not fighting the real power elite enemies of The People.

The psychological warfare the power elite has been waging on The People for thirty years has left us mentally and spiritually powerless.

[nc4bo]

15. We need a serious revolution more than an election.

The way things are going now, elections aren't really elections where the citizens get to choose, they're merely installations of the neocon power boys.



edit 'cause spellcheck doesn't do squat in subj. lines.

[Fovea]

16. Civil War, V2.0

This time, I doubt the Union can prevail.

I have been waiting for the Town Vs Suburban Vs Rural war for a couple of years now.

When the current situation in Georgia hikes competition for oil and Nat Gas resources to the boiling point, I think five dollar gas will be the new normal. Murika can't run on five dollar gas, IMO.

But neither can globalism, and China is going down hard, because while they have the industrial base, they lack critical resources to continue to operate in an environment of oil scarcity and increasing water scarcity.

Russia is poised to be the next big thing. But I think the EU has the winning strategy in going as far into renewables as the continent will allow.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

17. In America? Where they're running 2 moderates for president?

And, being "revolutionary" consists of wearing tinware in one's nostrils?

For a revolution, you need revolutionaries. Hell, even here, on a "liberal" message board people cringe at the mention of demonstrations at the national conventions of the established parties.

[H2O Man]

19. evolution

[paparush]

21. I vote for Revolution, but honestly, I don't see it happening in America.

I don't see people taking off work for a month to shut down DC. I don't see people willing to be shot, tear gassed, microwaved, tazed, beaten with batons, and run over by APC's.

Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe if the economy completely collapses. Maybe if Cheney/Bush start another war. Maybe if the 2008 election is so obviously stolen that its impossible to cover up.

I marched in DC in January 2007. Maybe half a million people. Very peaceful. Very well behaved. If that group had wanted to, I have no doubt we could have ripped down the gates of the WH, at the cost of many lives.

[Muttocracy]

24. I'd be happiest with a revolutionary election. nt

[FreepFryer]

25. Both. Elections, and a revolution of conscience. (n/t)

[leftofthedial]

26. we don't have elections anymore. we just have election shows.

only a revolution can save our species at this point, but there is no common will to drive an election. we'll just quietly destroy ourselves.