Millie Dent, Fiscal Times: A Military Coup in the U.S.? A Surprising Number of Americans Might Support One
Imagine you’re watching the evening news, kicking back after a long day in the cubicle. Suddenly a breaking news alert flashes across the screen: “Military Coup Overthrows the Government.” What would be your reaction?
While most Americans say they can’t imagine supporting a takeover of the government by the armed forces, or least aren’t sure about it, a substantial number of people say they can imagine supporting the military in such a scenario.
In a new survey by YouGov, 29 percent of respondents said they can imagine a situation in which they would support the military taking control of the federal government – that translates into over 70 million American adults. Forty-one percent of respondents said could not imagine supporting the military taking over the country.
WNU Editor: If such an event occurs .... it would mean that the U.S. as we know it .... even before such a coup should take place .... will no longer exist.
5 comments:
Wtf is wrong with you? You post anti US, pro Russia stuff, Russian heritege but live in Canada. Are you paid from a russian acount or plain stupied?
It's a public service announcement Sebastion. A military coup would be bad. Don't do it. Where is the evil in that?
People are fed up with the government. No suprise there. Im voting trump!
Yep. Doesn't surprise me that the Federal Government is a lot less popular than many other institutions, including the military - or that a lot of people are willing, at least hypothetically, to make decisions based off of their likes/dislikes of the actors involved rather than the merits of the case. The exact percentage is somewhat shocking though.
Let´s face it. A democracy that only benefits a few but enrages many is not the most stabile of things. Now exchange "democracy" for any other form of state you may imagine - and it still is true.
American politicians are, in the perception of too many, self-serving whores of specialized financial interests. No matter if true or false, this impression influences a lot.
In my eyes, any form of state has, first of all, to be measured on the liberty and well-being of its citizens - and not by "the label on the box".
Thus I´d say that any military government would have to prove itself being a significant benefit (for the majority) over the regime it displaced.
Someone once said: "A pot-head for a king might be better for the people of a country, than a parliament full of cocaine-heads" - and there might be something all too true about this statement.
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