Absolutely frightening... 1/3 isn't a majority by any stretch, but still. How can anyone think this would be a good idea under any circumstances!?
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http://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2015/09/one-third-of-americans-would-be-fine-with-the-military-taking-over
Blame the 2016 Republican presidential candidates (cough, Donald Trump, cough) or the recent stock market meltdown or Americans' general conviction that the country is going to hell, but a recent poll showed that one-third of U.S. citizens aren't satisfied with their government. In fact, 30 percent would support a military takeover, The Guardian reports.
The numbers come from a YouGov survey, which polled 1,000 people online. The exact question asked was, "Is there any situation in which you could imagine yourself supporting the U.S. military taking over the powers of federal government?" Interestingly, Republicans were twice as likely as Democrats to answer 'yes' to the question; 43 percent of Republicans said they could imagine supporting a military coup, while only 20 percent of Democrat said they'd support the move. About 30 percent of self-identified independent voters said they could get behind a military takeover.
Although the numbers look pretty grim, Abraham Wyner, director of the undergraduate program in statistics at the University of Pennsylvania, said that online polls are suspect when it comes to getting accurate results. "People who are participating in an online poll are generally attracted to that poll because of some variable," he said. In other words, people who respond to the poll tend to feel strongly about the poll's subject matter, so they're inherently biased.
The same survey included more questions about the U.S. military and law enforcement. Overall, most of those surveyed (70 percent) seemed to think that military officers want what's best for the country, but only 55 percent think that police officers act with the country's best interest at heart. The numbers are even worst for local politicians and federal civil servants. 
What's more frightening; Society sitting on their asses, while a group highly corrupt people in power run their country in the ground year after year with no end in site OR Said society being in favor of ousting said assholes?
What's "absolutely frightening" is how far we've come from where our found fathers stood. Today, they would be on a terrorist watch list and most likely killed in a drone strike....you know, for the good of democracy. THAT is what's "absolutely frightening".
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I didn't take the poll. Simply pointing that I can understand someone having that viewpoint.
It's difficult, I know.
The exact question is about imagination, not lack of support.
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I didn't take the poll. Simply pointing that I can understand someone having that viewpoint.
It's difficult, I know.
John Lee Pettimore -rrg1 -Sarcasm how does it work?MolsonMuscles - ^^^We found one.
I didn't take the poll. Simply pointing that I can understand someone having that viewpoint.
It's difficult, I know.
I'm not smart enough to figure it out. Help me.
Eh I have better things to do with my Saturday than argue on the interwebs.
106 million people is a lot of people
Not sayin i want a military takeover but itd be interesting to see thw military policing gang territory.
I guess it depends on the leadership of the people or person leading the coup.
The CSA got a lot of people to support their rebellion, though that was a much different era.
There isn't nearly enough division amongst groups citizens for this to become a reality, and the vast majority of people in America are living happily, compared to Africa or Thailand where these coups have occurred recently.
Ridgeback -
The Founding Fathers recommended it any time the government started getting uppity. At some point it is the patriotic duty of a citizen to overthrow tyrannical rulers that are above the law who forget that they rule solely by the consent of the governed.
That's why they want to take away guns.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
stonepony - The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
you say that but are you willing to pay that price. are you willing to have your son or daughter pay that price. because i think most people are not.
The price for what? Too vague, I can't respond.
If a politician told me I can't burn a quran in peaceful protest, I would not stand for it no. Unlike the rest of western civilization that didn't even blink when their expression rights were amputated by some politicians.
stonepony - The price for what? Too vague, I can't respond.
If a politician told me I can't burn a quran in peaceful protest, I would not stand for it no. Unlike the rest of western civilization that didn't even blink when their expression rights were amputated by some politicians.
you said "blood" so im asking if your willing to pay the blood price you speak of. This whole "give me liberty or give me death mentality" it no longer present in our day and time.
BruteDion -stonepony - The price for what? Too vague, I can't respond.
If a politician told me I can't burn a quran in peaceful protest, I would not stand for it no. Unlike the rest of western civilization that didn't even blink when their expression rights were amputated by some politicians.
you said "blood" so im asking if your willing to pay the blood price you speak of. This whole "give me liberty or give me death mentality" it no longer present in our day and time.
Yeah, it is. I gave you one example. One instance, where it would come to fighting.
If Obama tried to make it law, that it was illegal for an American to burn a Quran, it would get bloody. It wouldn't be like idiot BLM looters smashing in barber shops to steal hair weaves. It would be lawfully armed Americans, peacefully open carrying, and peacefully burning qurans on principle, and defending their right to do so.
To be fair, the question begins "Is there any situation in which you could imagine..."
The question also doesn't define if you would support that as a temporary or permanent solution.
I'm sure if I thought about it long enough I could come up with a scenario where letting the military throw out all the politicians long enough for us to regroup and start fresh, I could find a way to get behind that.
However, I don't think I could find a way to support that as a long term or permanent rule of government.
The south at it again. They are the most unpatriotic people
already had one when they splattered Kennedy's brains all over the car