I do have to give the discipline displayed credit; they couldn’t have accomplished so much without it.

You should check out the history of Islam for another religion/death cult with a disliking of dissent. They’ll cut your head off for that.

Islam has been taking sex slaves for a lot longer than the Left has, however. Although even the Democrats are older than the Leftist alliance, in purely slave taking.

Just a corollary to what Physicsguy mentioned; I’ve alluded to this before. A hypothetical: suppose that tomorrow Obama announced he was canceling the 2016 Election by executive order. Either he would stay in power indefinitely or he would voluntarily cede the Presidency to the anointed Hillary (or Biden, etc) on 1/20/2017. Furthermore, he suspends the 114th Congress immediately. For the remainder of his term, laws will come about through executive order.

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Don’t even mute it.

Knock it off with the paranoia…

Or are you concern trolling — testing the reaction of the public ?

Such a post has absolutely no upside — and would give most the impression that you are floating a trial balloon.

The real world answer is that there would be an uproar, and no small amount of blood letting, usually termed a civil war.

Ask Assad how that plays out.

And, the presidency is not the only office that’s standing for election.

Good grief.

Of course, such a proclamation would put the death mark on everyone that stood with the despot.

You might examine the dire example of “Los Pepes.”

Or the undoing of many another tyrant. ( c.f. Rome )

The President would lose all Constitutional legitimacy.

No-one would answer his phone or read his missives.

He’d be lucky if he could even make it out of the country.

Just ask the Shah of Iran… that fellow barely made it.

He found out, like Macbeth, how fast the plunge must be when your legitimacy is lost.

Kadaffy ended up depending on imported mercenaries. Every Arab in Libya had abandoned him — to include his own family !

0bama dares not make such an outlandish proclamation.

Indeed, one might even expect that he would be labeled medically incompetent to serve: tyrannically insane !

That wouldn’t even require an act of Congress.

The next thing he’d know, Biden would be president !

Even Biden could be tossed — it’s not as if he’s not an alcoholic, just like HRC.

Then the nation would be left with the House of Representatives voting on who would serve out the very short remainder of his term.

They’d probably vote in a good ol’ boy, very much in the mold of Gerald Ford.

Such an interim president would hold the fort merely until the nation voted in a safe and sane successor.

Tyrant, gone !

To be clear: Obama has not declared martial law, utilized the military or threatened anyone who dissents. Nope. He just announced the above is happening and that’s that.

Yes, there would be an uproar. Immediate calls for impeachment throughout the right of the spectrum. My question is: what of liberals? I’m not thinking of the fire breathing Alinskyite academics/journalists/activist – organizer types (who would cheer him on gleefully). I’m thinking of our ordinary “good German” liberal (“moderate”, ever so moderate!) neighbors and colleagues. How many would raise a fuss, would be shocked, scared and outraged? How many would simply shrug secure in the knowledge that the ends justify the means?

This question has occupied my mind multiple times. The conclusion I typically come to is almost too painful to acknowledge.

von F.: What a filthy job!

I: Could be worse.

von F.: How?

I: Could be raining.

[thunder]

But as we all “know”, Clinton was good, whereas Bush was eeeeeeevil. Period. Settled science. End of controversy.