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It might have happened, but I am not aware of a time when the people rose in revolution against a democratic form of government. The American Revolution was against a monarch imposing law in abstentia; the French Revolution against a corrupt monarchy.

Certainly there have been examples of groups amassing enough power to engage in a coups d'etat against a democratically elected government, or in instances where, despite elections, corruption prevented the government from actually being democratically elected.

I could not imagine how one could justify revolution against this government. A president and a congress elected by the majority of people delivered a plan that had been discussed during the election. The representatives who passed the allegedly unpopular legislation stand for election this year (all of one house and a third of the other.) The actions of this government stand to regulate some of the institutions that have substantial control over the people's access to health care; there is legislation pending to more strictly regulate an industry that was largely responsible for the extent of the recession from which we are emerging. Those who would rise up in "revolution" would in many respects simply doing the bidding of their corporate masters. I would cheer for any attempt at violent overthrow of this government to be swiftly crushed.

Regards,

D-Ray