robinturner | Where is Thomas Jefferson when you need him?

I know I am getting a reputation on LJ as a Europhile anti-American pundit, but please allow me one more question.

Given that a large number of Americans are strongly opposed to their government's Middle-East bloodlust;

Given that a large number of Americans believe with good reason that the last presidential election was fraudulent;

Given that the current American government exists largely to promote the interest of the few against the many, believes in the principle of one dollar, one vote, and is a quagmire of corruption and nepotism comparable to the England of George III;

Where is the revolution?

I see many demonstrations of popular dissent, and I welcome them, like most people in the free world. But I see no strikes, no civil disobedience, no calls to arms. The current protests are a dim reflection of what we saw in the 1960s. Please read once more your Declaration of Independence. Call a strike. Boycott American goods instead of French goods. Destroy government property. Invade military bases. Physically harass a congressman. You used to be able to do it.

When a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.