Another post on de Tocqueville and I can't come up with a title

"it is our inexperience of liberty in action which leads us to regard freedom of association as no more than a right to make war on the government"

This is an idea we kind of talked about in class. It's one of the reasons democracy was able to take root in America; we were already use to the idea of freedom of association. It's something that is now (and was then) so natural to us (even de Tocqueville described it as a "natural right")that we don't even think about using it as a tool of destruction. We get together and talk about our politics and laws and we needs to be changed and what doesn't and through our democratic system make those changes that we feel need to be made. Because in America it's such an everyday happening, you don't realize that other people in the world use it to take down their government, not aid it along in it's natural process. These past few weeks in the Middle East and northern Africa could be no better example of this and I'm very intereseted to see what happens later down the road in these countries.

I wonder what de Tocqueville would have to say about all of it.