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Originally Posted by ResAlien
Lol, no it's not. Everyone will have forgotten their outrage by March and will soon be placated with a new season of GoT and the introduction of the WhopperIzzaQuesaChurro. That's a whopper wrapped in pizza fried inside a quesadilla and stuffed with Churros. Revolution is bad for business. No no, the gun nuts will spike the sales in firearms, flag sales at Wal Mart will skyrocket, the new Trump news network will make him billions, and this will all continue to spin just like it has been doing for ages.
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Originally Posted by direwolf
I suppose it's possible considering how fiercely divided the U.S. is right now. If Hillary wins the election (which is looking more likely every day), I won't be surprised at all if we see some violent protests from Trump supporters. I sincerely hope that doesn't happen, but when you see people like the woman in that clip and people like Alex Jones, etc... it's a pretty volatile situation. Good on Pence for trying to talk some sense into that woman, but I doubt she listened to a word he said since it's obviously not what she wants to hear. These people are scary.
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I don't mean to suggest it's just an extremist Republican loss that will trigger a revolution.
Wealth is being continually concentrated in a wealthy few and big corporations. Those same wealthy few and big corporations avoid contributing to public endeavours, and the public purse is increasingly drained to the benefit of the private sector. Increasing numbers of people can't afford basic necessities. Jobs that were once adequate to house and clothe a family are increasingly scarce, education is increasingly beyond the reach of the middle class, and globalization ensures that a huge number of jobs are simply impossible to maintain in the US.
At some point, when half the population has nothing and no hope, and 5 percent has everything, revolution seems to me to be inevitable. If they're lucky, a political revolution happens first. I would prefer that be in the nature of a candidate like Sanders, but he's out, and the less rational revolutionaries will rally around the one guy left.
If he goes, they probably try again 4 years from now when their situation has deteriorated further.
But at some point I reckon they'll just get tired of waiting. And it's not like the US lacks a culture of violence, or that Americans are inclined towards subjugation. At some point, for millions of them, it'll just seem like uprising is the best and only option left.