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Originally Posted by MrSelfDestruct
Ok, let me throw a slightly different question out there. If a country (let's say Communist China or a resurrected Soviet Russia,) whose government you have seen as contradictory to your personal political and religious values were the coutry in question (for the US, assume that they bullied Mexico into cooperating and were pouring over the border,) would you support an extremely corrupt US government who violated the human and civil rights of its citizens through indefinite martial law but still allowed you to freely practice your religion and vote in elections?
I'm trying to create a hypothetical situation in which you would be in the same situation as the Iraqis. The problem I'm having here is that I don't know of any TFP members who believe that the authority to rule in government comes solely from God, so we can't think in the same way. I'm trying this question because it puts us in a situation in which we are oppressed, but the alternative is a government that goes against our moral and ethical standards.
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By your hypothetical and using that as a guide..... I would fight to the death against a government that went against my moral and ethical standards.
So yes, against a Chinese or Soviet (if they were still around) I would fight to my death.
As Pedro said, it is much more plausible especially as heightened as politics, greed, powerlust and partisanship hatred is, that we may see ourselves crumble from within. To which again, if in all honesty we were to go into a depression and the administartion did nothing to help the people, I would form a rebellion..... hopefully a peaceful one with demonstrations and elections, but in an extreme case where the party in control did all they could to keep their power and not listen to the people....... I'd take up arms..... or move to Canada and wait to see if things changed.