Reply #20: Hypothetically, maybe

[Burning Water]

First, you have to get the 500,000.

Then they have to be stoned, or liqueured up enough, to be willing to charge into blazing Marines.

Then, of course, assuming the Marines couldn't hold them while the Secret Service hustled the President to safety somewhere, what about attack helicopters.

Remember, these are unarmed protesters, not savvy Viet Cong, or even ruthless jihadis. They're massed up attacking a relatively small area. From my Army days, I remember my instructors telling us to keep spread out. "one grenade would get you all".

Nor do I think they would receive a lot of sympathy from the American people. Remember, they were trying to overthrow the "lawfully" elected government of "them, the people".

OK. I understand the rage. I feel it myself. But I much prefer to think with my brains, and not my guts. The electoral process is the only way that we have a chance to regain power and start to restore respect for the Constitution to this country and respect for the USA around the world.