Well, Tennessee Gentleman, you and I, will have to agree to disagree.
First I want to emphatically state that
I do not at the present time feel that our government is a mortal enemy to freedom and our republican form of government. I do however believe it is now and has always been a
potential enemy of freedom and our republican form of democracy. Or to be more specific the wealth and power of our government and the potential, however unlikely, for the abuse of that wealth and power.
I myself fully support constitutional solutions to
all of our political and legal quandaries, I even support those solutions and court decisions that are not to my liking. I also believe that it is highly unlikely that a revolution will ever occur in this country,
unless there were extraordinary circumstances, such as
the wholesale abandonment of the COTUS in an attempt to institute some completely different, possibly authoritarian form of government. Then
a revolution is not only possible, but in my view would be
justified and necessary.
I understand the fear and reluctance to even contemplate armed revolution, I fear it myself,
I don't want it. Nothing that has transpired politically in this country in my lifetime has
ever made me think one was needed, or even need be contemplated. However to suggest, given the history of world governments, that it is beyond the realm of possibility is over optimistic and somewhat naive.
It is right and correct for sane men to loath and fear revolution, for instance only 1/3 of the colonists supported the revolt against the Crown. Extraordinary circumstances however require extraordinary measures.