Is America going to have a Revolution?

erb

no
why? because people dont like and can't deal with inconvenience
and the tv will keep them occupied
no ones going to fight take risks or give up anything of their own

maybe when everything is lost but more than likely you will see people giving away all freedom and control for bread and a warm box/cot

how do i know this? because 85% of my family is that way.. after everything i've said and tried to explain they still think " it'll be alright" and they'll be the first in line for the bread and the tv will tell them "it's ok, come here for food"
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GreenOil08 · Coal Joined: Mar 14, 2008 Posts: 12

Of course there will be. they'll be everywhere. WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE!!!!!!!!!!

eastbay

Beagle

When people finally feel that they've had enough, they will rise up and tear down that which they can no longer live with, or care for, or believe in. They won't need an ideological alternative to the present paradigm. They won't need leaders (not at first), nor will they know what possible outcome will be acheivable by their actions. They will be swept up in the frenzy of the moment - the mad destruction of the present order. Some people may have visions of utopia but most will be too busy sacking everything that has ever oppressed, offended, bored or stupified them. When the time comes, they will smell revolution in the air and run wild in the streets. They will feel the pounding rush of blood in their veins and learn how it feels to be alive; giving up their medicated mindless and numb existence for the excitement of an unknown and uncomfortable future. Not until all is burned and desecrated will they stop to think about a new beginning.

...or maybe they'll just watch it on T.V. I hear the revolution will be televised.

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Cloud9 · Light Sweet Crude Joined: Jul 26, 2006 Posts: 1025

The lefts power base is in the cities. Its center is in the Democratic Party. Its power base lies in the vote of the under class. In a melt down, city dwellers will be met with the same kind of reactions that met the survivors of Katrina. The locals will block the bridges to keep the hordes out of their farms and villages. Any attempt to socialize will be met with the sentiment they, the fat loafing welfare swine are attempting to steal by legislation the rewards of my labor. They will not produce for themselves so they will take from everyone else. Talk about a revolution, that would cause a revolution.

sittinguy · Heavy Crude Joined: Sep 07, 2007 Posts: 338

YES, but not a least for a few more years maybe. When gas goes above $4,, that will really be the beginning I think.

Can you say Martial Law. They will pull troops home from where ever they are, and beat the hell out of protesters/rioters.

Someone said earlier that streets of nieghbors could ban together and trade goods and night watch. That could happen.

Ludi

Beagle

When the French had their revolution they quickly did away with the old order and got the reign of terror for their efforts.

The problem with revolutions is that you can't know what you will end up with when it's all over.

Perhaps people are choosing to live with the mess we have now because they have most of the 19th and 20th centuries as an example of how things could be a lot worse. It will have to get pretty bad before people today risk everything for uncertainty.

Ludi

Generally you end up with "the new boss same as the old boss."
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Gandalf_the_White · Intermediate Crude Joined: Nov 21, 2007 Posts: 511

Things would have to get alot worse than they are now, and they probably will, but they will have to get much worse than that even. Also there is a little problem of everything that could be used as a weapon being monitored and a huge force differential between the government whom we have slowly handed all of our personal power over to (them and the corporate boardrooms) and of course all the rest of us. You will notice that in any nation where automatic weapons become prolific armed revolt is easier to come by.

I suspect that we are on the verge of an economic epiphany the likes of which few nations have ever experienced, and as our economy goes, so goes the world economy. If the liquidity crisis deepens, and the Fed keeps throwing money and rates at it we could see $130 oil, $12 bread, $8 gas... Still I suspect that rather than falling into a Bastille Day the American sheeple will more easily swallow a plan where all the 'dead-enders' get nice jobs in one of Halliburtons 'rehabilitation' camps. The happy little hollywood shorts showing smiling and thankful program graduates will make us feel like at least if things aren't good at least the really sick people are getting the help they need.

If I had to guess the social atmosphere, most Americans are so well accultured to the feed trough they won't even blink until years after it comes out that anyone who questioned 9/11 slowly disappeared. The resistence is already slowly growing, but it will take a power greater than human will to defeat the darkness that is growing. I believe this present darkness is beyond confrontation with peace signs and love ins and even guns.

Remember that we had this talk in August this year.
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