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And Then What?
h/t Instapundit
Some people, on both the "Left" and "Right" have been talking about revolution. Whether it’s "We need to get rid of those fascist right-winging KKK Nazis" or "we need to get rid of those liberal commie pinko hippies" or whatever, the idea of using widespread violence to overthrow the existing order and impose ones own has been gaining steam.

...But what if it’s the side that wants less government intrusion into people’s lives, less control, and less bureaucracy, you have a real problem. How do you set that up so it sticks past even one election cycle (presuming you have elections in whatever you set up)?

So, are you going to have a Constitution? How will you establish that Constitution? Will you just write it and impose it on the population or will you use some mechanism, any mechanism, to give the people some voice in the Constitution you establish? If you don’t have a Constitution, how are you going to limit the government, not just now but in the future?

High level decision: are you going to let the people have a say in their own government or are you just going to force on them the government (strong or weak) which you want them to have? If the latter, how are you any better than the people who wanted to impose their government on the people? (And if you say "no government" then how do you prevent someone else from coming along and establishing their own choice of government on you?)

And if, instead, you allow the people to choose, the same people that voted in the government you just overthrew, what is to stop them from just voting back the same thing once more, rendering that whole insurrection and civil war an exercise in futility with the blood being shed for nothing.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2018-12-07
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=529205