Reply #45: Heard the same thing during the Civil Rights, anti-war, movement.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

I was ready to believe it then. Not now.

The vast majority of the American people pay scant attention to politics that doesn't affect them personally. They're not concerned about their "freedoms" because most will never exercise them. They are perfectly capable of "compromising" away their, and our, freedoms.

There are firebrands on the left and the right, as there has always been, but nothing to compare to the southern "fireaters" who demanded secession long before the civil war.

Americans are no more ready for civil war than they are for revolution.