A Second American Armed Revolution?

Poll: 29% of Registered Voters Believe Armed Revolution Might Be Necessary in Next Few Years -- CNS

Twenty-nine percent of registered voters think that an armed revolution might be necessary in the next few years in order to protect liberties, according to a Public Mind poll by Fairleigh Dickinson University.

The poll, which surveyed 863 registered voters and had a margin of error of +/-3.4, focused on both gun control and the possibility of a need for an armed revolution in the United States to protect liberty.

The survey asked whether respondents agreed, disagreed, neither agreed nor disagreed or did not know or refused to respond to the statement: "In the next few years, an armed revolution might be necessary in order to protect our liberties".

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My Comment: It was Thomas Jefferson who said that .... the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants .... a quote that tells me that even at the beginning of the Republic, this type of mindset has always been a part of the American psyche. And while I do hope and pray that I will never see such a revolution (I saw such a revolution in Russia when communism fell in 1991) .... I must confess that I am seeing some similarities in the U.S. of today to what I saw in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in the mid to late 1980s.

Economic stagnation .... pointless wars .... elites ignoring the general public .... political arrogance .... political corruption .... compliant media .... a growing sense of frustration and hopelessness .... ingredients that I saw in the Soviet Union that are now becoming more evident in the U.S. of today .... the question is .... how bad must it get before a critical mass is reached that makes such a revolt in America possible. Fortunately ..... I still believe that we have a very very very long way to go there before such a "revolt" happens .... but if a poll that shows 29% of registered voters are of the belief  that an armed revolution might be necessary in the next few years is accurate .... we are definitely going down the wrong path.