SHOOTING at the OLYMPICS

[WTE_Galway]

Originally Posted by ATAG_Bliss

But one thing that will NEVER happen is some other country invading, or our own government rounding us up like sheep to be slaughtered.

But aside from one aircraft that is exactly what happened with 9/11. Everyone just sat there.

The famous Milgram experiment in the 1950's were designed to prove that unlike other cultures (such as Germans and Japanese) average Americans were immune to Authoritarian influences and would disobey if ordered to do something immoral. As one would expect, Americans were every bit as likely to blindly obey authority as anyone else.

If anything, the strong hold of fundamentalism and rule-driven bible belt morality shows that the tendency to endorse and comply with authoritarian rules is strong in the US. (always bearing in mind the true fundamentalist needs a combination of both OCD and psychopathic personality disorders, but quite normal people can still be swayed to endorse the mind set)

In fact my personal impression is you are unlikely to get an uprising in the US against an authoritarian neo-fascist (fascist in the nazi sense of promoting "patriotism" as the ultimate good) government. However you are quite likely to get an uprising of gun toting militia in the US if a truly democratic government, that had upset big business and the religious right, got into power.