Is a revolution going to happen in the US?

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That's what my friend said too. He said that the US is in dire need of a coup, and I asked my and he said he wouldn't even know where to start. But without elections and without freedoms such as speech freedom, there will be less freedom for everyone, so how is less freedom of what you can say, or who you can elect, a good thing? If people say they wouldn't know where to start, how can any coup be a good one, if people can't even seem to answer why they feel they need one?

So USA has freedom of speech and elections ....those things are reserved for the very wealthy unless you piss off the media . Then the money than runs the media , Has the power . And this is or has all the appearances of being a free country . But this is just my personal experiences ... but it always looks better looking from the outside in .
Just my humble opinion.

I'm not American, but in Canada, we have freedom of speech and elections as well. But they are not reserved for the wealthy, because I can vote if I choose to, and say what I want, even though I am not wealthy. Can't none-wealthy people do that in the US as well?

In the USA you can say things as long as they don’t offend officials .. if they do you may just find yourself in a bad way courtesy of people they employ to harass or set you up to appear to be a criminal . Then criminalize you .
At which point you will lose more of those civil rights . But you might not know who is related to one of those officials in one way or another . But , just my own humble opinion. These are things I have seen or personally experienced.
Had seen a close personal relative lose their life for upsetting a few connected people , And he hardly knew these people . Except at a distance . Gotta be careful how you exercise your rights here .

Oh okay, I am sorry to hear that. But in the US people say things all the time about officials they do not like on social media and they don't seem afraid.

You mean like how the president of the United States got his Twitter account banned or were you talking about something else . Having lived through these experiences of my own .You might find out different after living in the same place a few years in the USA . In my humble opinion.

Oh okay, but I thought that a lot of Americans in the US prefer more restricted speech so wouldn't they be in favor of things like people not being able to say what they mean on twitter?

How do you mean the idea of freedom of Speech..... nobody vote about twisty addressing freedom of speech.
That was just what I wrote about earlier .... media controlling , what people believe or think ..
Curbing freedom of speech and just outright having good manners can be addressed as two different ideas.imho.

Oh okay sorry, so you are saying that the media is the real problem then?

People who have enough backing and money control the media ,, but I am not expressing the issue well enough to give you a proper answer . Sorry about that . But I don’t think there will be any revolution , here in the USA

Oh okay. I just thought if Americans actually were successful at a coup that that might make things worse than better though, unless it really wouldn't.

I’m sorry you’ve had personal experiences with oppression, Jakki. I believe people should have the right to dissenting views without repercussions—as long as they don’t directly advocate overthrow of the government.

In general, we have much more freedom to express dissenting views than most countries. We are not required to carry ID all the time, unlike a nation such as France.

I said some very nasty things about Trump when Trump was President. I never suffered repercussions because of it. Repercussions would have happened had I been employed by an avowed Trump supporter who believes in the Qanon crap.

Trump desired less personal freedom, and less freedom of the press. Truth became lies under Trump...and lies became truth. Many people fell under the spell of Trump because they didn’t bother to THINK.