An obvious spallnns correction: putsch

Sarah Palin has said that Americans are ready for a revolution, but this is less convenient than a simple putsch.

"Putsch" is easier to write on the palm of your hand: forget "velvet revolution", this is the "palm putsch".  The Palin palm putsch.

Why putsch and not revolution?  Because in a representative democracy, when the left is the majority and elects a majority who try to organize and pass legislation as a majority the only thing sore losers have left - especially those who know they should have won, would have won and WILL win - is the putsch.  Not a beer-hall putsch.  A tea party putsch!

The fear of a putsch is thought to have driven the government-in-waiting to move their most recent shhadow cabinet meeting to an obscure beach hotel in Hawaii.

Palin and revolution

America has never known revolution, except in name.  In the greatest numbers, what Americans have known is war - civil war and foreign wars.  And in lesser numbers, wars against her native peoples.

So why revolution?  She must be thinking "industrial revolution" or some such.

Why not "putsch"?  Armed and over-throwing tyrants. Then merely recall a constitutional convention and enforce literacy tests: no Bible knowledge, no vote.  Multiple votes for small business owners.  Block votes for churches (but not the Catholics.)  Abortion punishable by a hanging in any churchyard.  Surely the righteous shall rule.

Then restore the people's representative democracy on that renewed constitutional footing - like the solid Alaskan permafrost.

Unless a new secessionist movement and ensuing civil war is easier to plan and to execute.  Like hunting moose on Fifth Avenue.