Younger generations are increasingly co-opted by the hand that feeds them. IMO, that makes them far less likely than the older generations to desire freedom or measure it worth taking action for. This is conditioning. They won't exactly miss what they've never had. Government ownership will appear normal to them, they won't know what us "old cranks" are getting worked up over, maybe Grandpa missed his Xanax prescription this morning.
Your argument in the OP is akin to what I have been speaking of. That America is on the path to become a North Korean regime. There are three methods of shattering the power structure keeping us on this path.
- More, successful, political parties.
- State secession.
- Civil Unrest.
While you speak vaguely of the third option, and it is the most certain and undeniable to occur, it would be for the benefit of our children to do _EVERYTHING_ in our power to seek out the first two choices - in attempt to ward off our last resort. A mad max world is one in which many children die, where food is scarce and you never know if the next stranger is going to put a bullet in you. It's sheer anarchy, which is the last thing we want.
To that end, I want more parties. I want state's rights. I will work for those.
The first step for me, with Republican origin, is to support the "Tea Party" and any other notion to oppose compromise. To ensure gridlock in Washington. To hold them up and prevent them from increasing power. Secondly, I want the Republican party to lose elections, the consequences of which will shatter them. Already big government proponents, such as Karl Rove are screaming out in pain. This must continue, we must carve up and destroy his party. Down with the Neocons.
You see, without their dancing partner to balance incumbency with, the Democrat Party would begin to face pressure. It might very well feel powerful enough to contest themselves in primaries, to seek out their own "Tea Party. This, absent a Republican Party, would allow a true opposition party to contest the national stage. In short, if the Republican Party falls, I believe the Democrat Party would follow.
To give rise the fresh ideas and new parties, I want this to happen. I'm voting third party.
If we cannot defeat the GOP, then I have thought of one other non violent solution - though it has its risk for violence. We campaign for state's rights, for secession. The theme is simple, we give people what they want. The South gets guns and Sunday off, the Northeast gets universal health care paid for by the government. The two do this separately, without one another to prevent progress or threaten the other. In short we bypass the impasse in Washington and start getting things done.
As we have been divided and conquered by our two incumbent parties, so too may we divide them. We speak to the human condition, of selfish desire to seek power - and we offer it to them. To grant them everything they want, it's just that they won't cover the whole nation. That is the price they must pay for victory.
We go to the state capitols and offer them this deal, to get them to do what must be done to ensure a transition. The most extreme states agree to this, and get the ball rolling. Their lemmings will follow and soon we would see a two state solution. This has a similar effect as multiple parties, in that without an opponent new opposition will form. The two state solution gives birth to four political parties in this nation.
Either way, the power structure that once held us captive would collapse. It may not guarantee the protection of individual rights and self determination - but it's still a chance. It's hope. That's better than the guarantee we have today, of becoming North Korea.
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