09-29-2006, 01:54 PM
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Pixie's Resident Reptile
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Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Central MD, USA
Posts: 21,196
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Originally Posted by wyndhy
i gotta say i don’t think that a violent (or otherwise) overthrow of our government is at all likely, and it would be even less likely than that to succeed.
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Gotta agree with you Whyndy, I don't think it's at all likely to succeed. There's not enough organization among the myriad anti-government groups, nor enough unity of purpose, IMHO for it to be successful. I mean, given that the term "anit-government" can cover anything from right-wing reactionary militias to extreme militant communists, you can see where I'm coming from here.
Politics does indeed make strange bedfellows, but the last time a communist organization with major amounts of power got together with a fascist organization with major amounts of power (The Nazi German/USSR pact just prior to the launch of the Second world War), it proved disasterous to both sides in the long run, although not as disasterous as it did to a western-style democracy in the shorter run (Poland). I don't see that happening in this country anytime soon.
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Originally Posted by wyndhy
What makes you think that a bloody coup d’etat is eminent here, gg, and who's gonna do it?
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I don't think it's actually imminent; I was talking a longer-term trend. Probably not predictible in the details, just in the broad scope.
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