“So you say you want a revolution? Really, how would that work?”

Americans have become far too complacent. I wish in some ways we lived up to our stereotype of being the world’s most violent people. (Americans are less prone to rioting than Canadians!) We are well fed and well entertained with our giant flat screen TVs and gadgets, and we have let the government get enormous while we played and slept. While watching Monday Night Football, the government took over our lives right under our noses. I always wonder why Americans don’t riot more, or protest more. We’re not even known for protesting. I wondered why the people of Illinois did not riot after their governor was caught selling votes, threatening the lives of reporters, abusing power generally in a way that is mind boggling. There were no storming of the governor’s mansion, not even a protest march. I think of Musolini and Consescau and how mobs tore them to shreds. I wish we Americans would do that more often. I think it’s warranted. In China, they execute corrupt politicians. Here is an observant quote from a man some of you may have heard of. It sums up perfectly why we have an out-of-control government:

“God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion.
The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is
wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts
they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions,
it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. …
And what country can preserve its liberties, if it’s rulers are not
warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of
resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as
to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost
in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from
time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
It is its natural manure.” –Thomas Jefferson