It could be, Larry, but I like to think otherwise. There is a big difference, I think, between grumbling about violent insurrection and actually doing it. There is a segment of our society that has a fundamentalist world view and shared cultural values (overwhelmingly white, evangelical christian, and conservative) that believes that "our country" is being lost. That is powerful and could push things over the edge, but I think that the roots of democracy are still strong and that our shared history as a country with significant generational evolution will be enough to prevent that.
Our country has evolved through many socio-political conflicts that has deeply divided us. Only once has it come to armed insurrection. Could it again? Yes, of course. I'm an optimist, however, and I don't think it will come to that. I see too much positive change and new consensus building taking place along side the strife to think that we are yet that broken. Dissent is good. Hopefully the energy and passion of the Tea Party can engage areas where there is common ground to be found, such as strengthening and renewing our commitment to civil liberties. The current leadership of the party is opposed to compromise and common ground, true, but they've been on a winning streak, so that's not surprising. If we can wind up our wars, get the economy moving ahead a bit better, and settle in on some of the major changes that happened around the end of the Bush admin/beginning of the Obama admin, perhaps we can end up in a more functional place. Cheers, Judah On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 10:37 AM, Larry C. Lyons <[email protected]>wrote: > > Give them time Judah, they will get pretty violent when its obvious how > much the country has ignored them for their extreme positions. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:368375 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
