Is this a “Need Answer Fast” kind of question?
Of course the “other way” is for everyone in the United States to stop pretending that the United States government exists. When that happens then as a matter of fact the United States will cease to exist, just as surely as the Carthaginian Empire does not exist.
However this will require the cooperation of nearly everyone, especially those people who control lots of guns and bombs. In real life, The Powers That Be give their loyal subjects the guns and the Loyal Subjects then use the guns to make The Masses obey. So when the Loyal Subjects stop supporting The Powers That Be against The Masses, then The Powers That Be are no longer the Powers That Be.
But in real life, the Loyal Subjects usually tend to see some benefit in supporting The Powers That Be. That’s why they support the regime. And when the stop supporting The Powers That Be they don’t always all do so at exactly the same time, which is why you usually end up with various factions of the Loyal Subjects shooting and decapitating each other.
With this and other replies I believe I got my answer, and with this the US Government can not be a Government ‘of the people, by the people, for the people’ - and can not legitimately make that claim - if 'The People can not end it at their whim.
At this point the GQ I feel has been answered Mods feel free to move this to GD or close it as I may start a new thread.
The answer to your question was, is and will always be “no”. Your interpretation of this answer is wildly inaccurate, however. You never answered my question, btw, about what percent of the population would have to be in agreement for you to consider them to be “The People”.
OK, if you don’t understand the words ‘of the people, by the people, for the people’ and don’t understand they have no legal significance and don’t understand there was never intended to be any and don’t understand that no nation in the history of the world has been organized this way and ignore the fact that they come from an inspirational speech with as much formal meaning as the last Britney Spears song, then I’m assuming you don’t understand the phrase “representative democracy,” which is what we actually live in.
Seriously? Do you understand what you are arguing?
It’s probably better to close it and let you start a new thread in GD.
Colibri
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