[dolanbaker]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', '
')Already in this downturn we've got massive labor unrest mixed with general strikes in Spain, Greece and France, with Ireland, Portugal, and Italy heading down the same road.

[Ludi]

So what would be the spark to set off the Second Revolution? Seems like people are getting all upset about stuff that isn't happening, like socialized health care and gun confiscation.

[Pops]

Cloud's right, we'll keep being distracted -the Left got it's big change and now the right will get a "win" for their side (maybe) whether it does or not it will set up the battle lines for the next campaign. We'll stagger left then wobble right then back again, just like always, gazing at the shiny-pretty held up for our amusement.

I'm always awed that without a shot fired, the entire direction of government can change - I'm always amazed it never does.

[vtsnowedin]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', 'S')o what would be the spark to set off the Second Revolution? Seems like people are getting all upset about stuff that isn't happening, like socialized health care and gun confiscation.

[Cog]

With a little luck the Tea Party radicals will create absolute chaos to the legislative process in Washington. I'm always more comfortable when there is bickering and outright panic among the political class.

[Ludi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vtsnowedin', '
')A few possibilities:
1. Social Security checks stop coming.
2. Your ATM card stops working
3. Gas goes above $10.00 per gallon
4. There is nothing in Wal-Mart you can afford.
5. the shelves at the Piggly Wiggly are empty.
6. There is no booze at the liquor store.
7. There is no bread, beer or cigarettes at the Cumbies or at the Seven Eleven
8.You and everyone else in your family is out of work.
9. Your cell phone and cable TV stop working.
10. It's fall and you cant fill your fuel tank for the house furnace.
11. They stop shipping pot north from Mexico.
12 Lindsey Lohan actually goes to jail.

[Pops]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vtsnowedin', '5'). the shelves at the Piggly Wiggly are empty.

[efarmer]

You have five little piggly wigglys in each shoe Pops, and I am a little rusty, but I think the big one is the one that gets to go to market. Mine use to be piggly wigglys, but now they smell like hoggly wogglys.

[Newfie]

I don't know about there being a revolution but I would not at all be surprised to see some real wacko running hard in the '16 election.

When I say this everyone jumps to 'Hitler.' I dunno. Maybe, or maybe something else entirely. Could swing right or left but more likely weird.

I just think that all those 'couch potatoes' Ludi mentions will be fed up and want someone to do their revolutionary bidding form them, and someone will oblige.

Glen Beck on steroids?

A religious guy?

Anti-immigration?

[efarmer]

Keep your eyes on Vogelzang, he is just making friends and building consensus now, but I think he may be a serious contender. I have long marveled as his investments have struck paydirt time and time again and he could very well just write his own check and not be dependent on anyone else for campaign funding. The meme in 2016: "What Me Worry? Yes We Can."

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', 'S')o what would be the spark to set off the Second Revolution? Seems like people are getting all upset about stuff that isn't happening, like socialized health care and gun confiscation.

[eastbay]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', 'S')o what would be the spark to set off the Second Revolution?

[Ludi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('eastbay', ' ') So expect revolution.

[eastbay]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('eastbay', ' ') So expect revolution.

[ian807]

Americans will revolt when there's no more:

1) Cheap food, particularly of the fried chicken variety
2) Cheap entertainment (TV, internet).
3) Cheap drugs (Beer, pot and that pastoral favorite, crystal meth)
4) Cheap gas. How else to drive to their minimum wage jobs 25 miles away?

When all this goes, so goes the USA as a singular geopolitical entity. 95% of the population will be in withdrawal from one or all of the above. They have guns and they will be cranky.

Until then, expect nothing more threatening that a tea party rally where the majority of folks look like they couldn't run the 100-yard dash without heart failure, much less revolt.

[SeaGypsy]

You forgot the disabled Ludi! A Wheelchair Revolution? Seems a rediculuous idea until you consider disabled veteran entitlements. I believe the US does have about the best veteran care provisions in the world; I know a lot of veterans living in Asia on T&P military pensions; there must be many thousands scattered around the world by now, besides those in home camps. These guys, like everyone else these days, network.
The Fury will be indescribable when the Vet checks stop.
My 10 cents on the next revolution in the USA.
One of the most censored stories of the 20th century is the lengths Legacy went to in order to support neglected veterans; particularly after the Vietnam war. The broad high end support for turning a blind eye to 'alternative fundraising activities' undertaken by a handfull of enthusiastic veterans and their willing helpers was a guilt response, as is the suppression of details of this story (which for the good of this site I dare not go further).
The seeds of revolution were planted in the 60's there can be no doubt. Will the generation of sowers get to reap; or will it be their children?

[vtsnowedin]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Newfie', 'I') don't know about there being a revolution but I would not at all be surprised to see some real wacko running hard in the '16 election.
When I say this everyone jumps to 'Hitler.' I dunno. Maybe, or maybe something else entirely. Could swing right or left but more likely weird.

I just think that all those 'couch potatoes' Ludi mentions will be fed up and want someone to do their revolutionary bidding form them, and someone will oblige.

Glen Beck on steroids?

A religious guy?

Anti-immigration?

[Ludi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ian807', 'A')mericans will revolt when there's no more:

1) Cheap food, particularly of the fried chicken variety
2) Cheap entertainment (TV, internet).
3) Cheap drugs (Beer, pot and that pastoral favorite, crystal meth)
4) Cheap gas. How else to drive to their minimum wage jobs 25 miles away?

When all this goes, so goes the USA as a singular geopolitical entity. 95% of the population will be in withdrawal from one or all of the above. They have guns and they will be cranky.

Until then, expect nothing more threatening that a tea party rally where the majority of folks look like they couldn't run the 100-yard dash without heart failure, much less revolt.

[efarmer]

Less cheap food will make Americans look less revolting, less mindless TV will make Americans acts less revolting. You know the more impoverished we become, the more likely it is that Americans will be less revolting instead of more revolting.

[vtsnowedin]

It may go way past a little dieting and slimming down. Cut off regular food distribution and or the means to pay for the food and your couch potatoes will be lean and mean in a hurry. There was a saying that no country is more then two meals from a revolution. North korea not withstanding there is a lot of truth in that. We are at about eightteen percent unemployed now. Want to guess what things would be like if we got to fiftyone percent and the government ran out of money to pay unemployment checks?