Whoa, I didn’t say it was impossible. I just meant that just because we didn’t have a “citizen soldier” military from an ongoing draft, that alone would not lead to a situation where a coup would be easy.
Is a coup possible? Yes! There used to be a phrase in this country’s lexicon of American-isms that went: “It can’t happen here” after the title of a famous book, meaning we are immune from totalitarianism. American’s seem to think these things can’t happen because we have the right to vote. Even as a young child I could tell grown-up’s glib, perfunctory adherence to such aphorisms was BS. Whatever it is people think “can’t happen here” certainly can, given the right circumstances.
Brave New World?
1984?
It Can’t Happen Here?
Camp of the Saints?
They’re all possible. And I don’t mean barely, in some theoretical way. I mean they are lurking out there.