(01-30-2020, 07:53 PM)mikesez Wrote:

(01-30-2020, 07:29 PM)TrivialPursuit Wrote: Revolution.

It's supposed to happen every 20 or 30 years anyway... the tree of liberty looks a little parched to me.

Okay.
So stay with me, tell me if I missed something.
Last time there was widespread armed conflict in the US was the civil war. That conflict was kicked off by individual state legislatures voting to secede from the Union. You could wish for something like that again, but as of now the state legislatures are completely dominated by the same two-party system. The national parties use the state parties as their pawns, more or less.
The time before that, was the time that caused Jefferson to remark about the tree of liberty. That was Shay's rebellion. Shay's rebellion earned enough sympathy that Shay himself got an amnesty and the candidate favored by most of the rebels won the next governor's election. The Shay's rebellion gave us the constitutional convention. Jefferson was actually writing to argue against convening a constitutional convention, saying that rebellions like Shay's should happen from time to time.
So look around today.
Which group of people is most like Daniel Shays?