fred:

I don’t share your optimism about Americans going into open rebellion over the possible changes under an Obama administration. The kinds of freedoms that will be curtailed are simply not widely practiced by a majority of Americans. A bumper sticker I saw a few months back said it well, “Go Ahead and Take Some of My Liberties, I Wasn’t Using Them Anyway.”

However, severe economic troubles coupled with continued imposition of massive undocumented immigration, along with other types of transnational phenomena that ordinary Americans can feel at a personal level, may fuel enough anger to cause an upheaval.

Other things that could cause great anger are: 1) Hard evidence of massive voter fraud, particularly if illegal aliens end up voting by at least the tens of or hundreds of thousands. 2) Quality jobs leaving the country at an accellerating rate due to punitive taxes and regulations on corporations.

Keep in mind that the media will largely trumpet the administration’s and the left’s spin on those events: 1) they won’t report the voter fraud if they can help it, and 2) I have heard some Democrats in Congress proposing prosecuting corporations or their CEOs who attempt to move business overseas. The corporations will be tagged as the “villains,” and to a lot of ordinary people in bad economic times, they couldn’t care less as long as they have that coveted job, and the future consequences be damned.