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« on: December 21, 2009, 03:24:41 PM »
If so, what sparks it?
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« Reply #1 on: December 21, 2009, 03:28:54 PM »
I don't think we'll have another real Revolution for a very long time.  We may have political shifts, like the election of FDR in 1932, or of Reagan in 1980, which alter the landscape for years to come, but I don't think that is the type of Revolution that you are referring to.
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« Reply #2 on: December 21, 2009, 03:42:40 PM »
Not in the traditional sense. In a technological sense, possibly. As for what sparks it, I'm guessing either a war or a group of very talented inventors.
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« Reply #3 on: December 21, 2009, 03:49:05 PM »
Yes, the question of whether (or when) the US will change the fundamentals of their republic and in which ways, is interesting.
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« Reply #4 on: December 21, 2009, 06:03:06 PM »
No, I don't believe we are at all. People have become too complacent.
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« Reply #5 on: December 21, 2009, 06:07:13 PM »
Not in the current situation. Political conciousness and awareness is at all time lows. I personally blame mass culture.
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« Reply #6 on: December 21, 2009, 06:22:23 PM »
I think the US government should start taxing teabags, American flags, and domestic beer very heavily just to see what happens
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« Reply #7 on: December 21, 2009, 06:30:12 PM »
No, the average citizen has become too lazy and content.
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« Reply #8 on: December 21, 2009, 06:32:49 PM »
Quote from: Pragmatic Libertarian on December 21, 2009, 06:30:12 PM
No, the average citizen has become too lazy and content.

After what happened this last decade and this last year, really?
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« Reply #9 on: December 21, 2009, 06:40:22 PM »
Food and Oil prices would have to rocket for that to happen I'm afraid. Rocket to the extent that the third world becomes an uninhabitable zone.
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« Reply #10 on: December 21, 2009, 06:43:01 PM »
Yes, the Great Health Care Revolution of January 2010. Afterwards, the Democrat Party will be outlawed by the Supreme Court and Sarah Palin is crowned Empress of the New American Republic (= the former United States sans New England, but with Alberta, Israel, and Iraq as new states). Joe Biden will continue to lead a government-in-exile located in Burlington, Vermont though.
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« Reply #11 on: December 21, 2009, 07:00:30 PM »
Not at all. 

We'll do what we always do: vote slightly different characters into office and pretend that by doing so we changed the world...only to be either disappointed or hackish afterward.
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« Reply #12 on: December 21, 2009, 07:17:44 PM »
No, and it dismays me how much the right talks about it. A militant revolt will never occur, at least under the current circumstances. You would have to see things plummet to third world levels, something not feasible at the moment.

(Waiting for Opebo's Take)
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« Reply #13 on: December 22, 2009, 02:20:05 AM »
I'll join a national front of the left or right. Any kind of revolution would be exciting.
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« Reply #14 on: December 22, 2009, 02:24:59 AM »
Quote from: West Coast Republican on December 22, 2009, 02:20:05 AM
I'll join a national front of the left or right. Any kind of revolution would be exciting.

I think that pretty much sums up your entire career of posting here on this site.
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