A journalist -- in other words, a middlebrow socialist scold -- has penned a column in the Los Angeles Times recommending a military coup against Donald Trump should he ascend to the presidency.
At first this annoyed me because after everything that government already has done to harm America, only now does this person and many others like him call for defiance, and simply because the government might start enforcing the border, clamping down on illegal aliens, and putting America's economic and military interests first (i.e., things the government should be doing anyway).
But I thought about it a little further and realized something: regardless of who wins this election -- whether it's reptilian Hillary Clinton or bombastic Donald Trump -- large numbers of people will be so upset that they will seriously consider disobedience to what they view as illegitimate power. This is the drum I've been beating practically alone for ten years, so I'm happy that a chorus will soon be joining me no matter what! I'm even considering voting this time, not because I want either of these candidates possessing the obscene, illicit power concentrated in Washington DC, but to do my part to encourage people to turn their backs on it.
Funny. "Thinking outside the box" for most people means not voting; for me, it means voting.
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