Dear Lord, no. A revolution is not going to happen in America. I mean, the income gap was much worse a century ago than it is today.
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Edited by Black Eagle X99: 1/11/2013 9:53:35 PMWhat makes you so sure about that? We're spending nonexistent money and the government is largely ignoring the people. With the whole gun control debacle I would no longer be surprised. To respond to you addition, the price of things today is also much higher than it was a century ago. The gap doesn't much matter when around 1/3 (I'm low balling to be sure) of the country doesn't make ends meat, is unemployed, or lives solely on government money.
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Edited by Diplomat: 1/11/2013 9:54:37 PMBecause, the sufficient conditions that make most groups of people rebel on a large haven't been fulfilled yet in a America. The majority of the American people live nice, content lives and all reside under a democratically elected government. Revolutions occur because the risk of losing is proportionally smaller than the risk of gaining. Overthrowing our government will likely result in a negative impacts for most Americans.
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You mean a situation like the value of the dollar dropping drastically? Or something along the lines of complete firearms regulation? That would irritate a lot of the nation I'm sure. If the elected officials continue to ignore the people and keep waving around worthless issues in our face as distraction I can see this as much more likely than we'd all want it to be. Notice how we haven't had any attention paid to "real" issues in a while. It's all about drugs, contraception, and abortion. We see that, while they just pass what they please.
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We're in no way shape or form in danger of a complete firearms ban, nor is our economy faltering to depression era levels.
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Yet. Our debt is going to bite us in the butt if we continue to spend. We are able to raise a crap ton of money during World War II, if we could get that kind of patriotism going again to decrease our debt I see it as very doable. The issue is that we're not, we're spending.