I hear that argument or similar ones a lot in this situation coming from people in the US - that the common man will not stand for it, either because of the injustice or because his way of life will change so drastically so as to become intolerable. I think that it is instructive to see what happened and how in other countries facing similar situations. For example, in the early days of the Soviet Union or Nazi Germany. Surely several people of those sophisticated and cultured societies could see what was going on and placed their money on citizens 'not putting up with it', as well as the fact that the nazis and communists were in the eyes of many (and rightly so) inept and/or crazy peope. But the fact is that those pathologicals did grab power and kept it for years. In the case of Germany, a World War was needed to remove them, and in communist Soviet Union, it took several decades.
What I mean to say, which I've said before on this thread, is that history shows that, unfortunately, people are capable of taking a lot of crap as long as they have something to eat. And by the time they no longer have anything to eat, they are literally too weak to fight back. Without going as far as nazism or the USSR, people all over the world have to witness outrageous acts of corruption from their governments - electoral fraud being one very common such act - and very rarely can they protest or rebel in an effective way so as to get justice done. Sometimes they rebel for a while, and after some time they grow tired or are attacked by the media so much that they become too unpopular to continue. Others, they are repressed or bought or silenced until there is no more opposition. And when they do seem to make a difference, it's almost always a case of manipulation by some other party (as in 'color revolutions') so there's is no real victory for the people.
Perhaps the difference in this case is that the American people are not used to seeing on their own soil things being so blatantly corrupt and lies and injustice being so huge and obvious, so they are still under the illusion that 'people will rise up'. Well, some may try, but see what happened on their very first try at the Capitol. Now they are being called 'domestic terrorists' and such.
So while I agree that sooner or later a pathological system such as is dawning on the US (not that it was super sane before) will eventually fall, partly because people will be fed up, the sad fact is that such a fall may take several decades before it actually materializes.
