Sadly, you're right, Mike. As the Who put it, "Meet the new boss.....same as the old boss"

>>Is it far-fetched for me to start contemplating a Second Revolution? The Founding Fathers, in the Federalist Papers and other writings, made it clear that they expected a periodic uprising against the federal government when the feds became too powerful and too neglectful of the common citizen. With the bailouts and the steady move to socialism in this country, aren't we way over the line of what would have been acceptable to the individualists the Framers were?
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>>Seriously, with the bipartisan gridlock and gotchas, the difference in both major parties between what is said and what is done, what hope is there of returning to ideals and not a buncha jerks political expediency?
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>>Really, there is no hope. It's getting close to the time to rise up and reclaim the country and can these bast@rds. The Founding Fathers knew that this time would come; that's why they made DC a helpless demilitarized zone.
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>The obvious question is what you propose to replace the present system with.
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>It's easy to be angry, especially in crazy times like these, but to just overthrow the government (if that were even possible) without a plan beyond that is just embracing chaos.