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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator
i have seen it's coming for a good 15 or so years now that I have been actively paying attention and it scares me. the time for revolution is now
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And how is this revolution to take place?
Just as Lincoln advised, this is We the People's government and we can change our government constitutionally through accepted legal means; Force should only be used as a last resort.
In other words, the only way to have a revolution without martial law quickly squashing it is to do it through starting a political movement.
Campaign finance reform and electoral college reform can wait.
At some point we also need to shorten terms of office.
And the appointment of any governmental officials that aren't decided upon by the general public in democratic elections should eventually be prohibited.
But first things first.
The focus of any serious revolutionary movement should be a basic and single-minded one that urges and provides for a constitutional amendment to end all repeat terms of political office. Once someone has served once, then their time is up. They can run for another office, but not that same one. In ideality, there should no be such a thing as a career politician. The current notion of the
status quo that people should be allowed repeat terms feeds political corruption, and is, in essence, antithetical to the concept of
participatory democracy and any semblance to a
truly representational government.