What can we do?

They'd throw a bunch of us in the Federal Pen and the rest would cave.

I thought as much.Id cave too, but what if we didnt.
Can you imagine a whole country being put in prison.How would the powers that be cope?

It depends. If you are in the military, or they reinstate the draft, you could go to jail if you refuse. Or flee to a different country.
If you are a civilian, I have no idea what they could do to you.

I have no great faith in the American people-- look who they elected to lead them (and who 32% apparently still blindly support, despite the evidence in front of them).

As far as a draft and an unpopular war, well we went through all that in the Sixties. It was sad and it was glorious, but they kept drafting folks right up to the end.

Bush didnt have much competition from what I understand,Nobody favoured the other candidates.

That's not really the case, but rather beside the point.

Well -I'm not an American but one look at Mrs Bush and one at Mrs Kerry and I know who I would have voted for.

MG-there will always be plenty who want to fight.

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"Judge a man by the company he keeps"... moreso, the woman he weds.

It's called murder. Pull out a gun, and people get quiet. Or they get really really mad, charge the person with a gun, and the person with a gun panics and fires blindly until the mob of people not yet killed kill him in turn.

The government publicly removes the loudest opposers, and their followers dissipate. Or so advises Machiavelli.

Actually it is the case. Scowling John Kerry was not really a choice. Heck, even I have admitted (in a soft whisper) that if the Democrats had trotted Al Gore back out in '04 odds are that I would have voted for him. As it was, I had no choice but to vote George back in.

If we had to pick by first lady and those were the only two choices.... well, I'd just castrate myself ya know?