05-01-2018, 01:54 AM
(04-30-2018, 06:57 PM)David Horn Wrote: You are coming close to advocating insurrection here ... or reporting on it at the very least. Nowhere is there a right to rebel, as every attempt in the past has demonstrated. It's odd that the ones so focused on draining the swamp are the ones least likely to use the ballot box to accomplish it. Instead, they prefer a friendly tyrant who will do it for them, or, barring that, to take up arms.
In fiction, I think the hero in Shogun advocated one thing that justifies rebellion against your overlord. You have to succeed. In real life, the founding fathers are among those that successfully rebelled. I will go with Thomas Jefferson's justification for rebellion in the Declaration of Independence. I deny your claim that every rebellion has failed, that every tyrant is morally correct.
That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.