You're not going to get much traction among the black belts of Keyboard-Karate with talk like that! /s
But of course you're right. The organizers of "let's overthrow..." are short-sighted at best and dishonest at worst. The critical mass of followers has to be:
Shown an alternative that's better than their current situation, and...
Taught how their sacrifices and participation will bring it about.
The "Reddit revolutionaries" on the web had better take another look at the raw material they have to work with here before they start mouthing slogans that are better applied in other cultures during harder times.
Revolutions require loss of support by the masses toward the established order. Even in the midst of our multiple "emergencies", the U.S. population just doesn't fit that definition, and won't until they literally have nothing to lose.
When 45% don't pay taxes and 70+% get .gov benefits you have to ask, "who from among those percentages is going to withdraw their support for the status quo, and what is RobinHood/Che Guevara going to have to promise them, in order to get them to do it?"
The revolutionary and the guerrilla require Mao's "sea" of cooperative (or at least non-hostile) people to "swim" in. Nothing is more unlike that environment than the U.S.'s "see something, say something" population.
TL;DR: The masses of asses will remain inert until the Soylent Green - "Scoops" come for them.
^This^
You're not going to get much traction among the black belts of Keyboard-Karate with talk like that! /s
But of course you're right. The organizers of "let's overthrow..." are short-sighted at best and dishonest at worst. The critical mass of followers has to be:
The "Reddit revolutionaries" on the web had better take another look at the raw material they have to work with here before they start mouthing slogans that are better applied in other cultures during harder times.
Revolutions require loss of support by the masses toward the established order. Even in the midst of our multiple "emergencies", the U.S. population just doesn't fit that definition, and won't until they literally have nothing to lose.
When 45% don't pay taxes and 70+% get .gov benefits you have to ask, "who from among those percentages is going to withdraw their support for the status quo, and what is RobinHood/Che Guevara going to have to promise them, in order to get them to do it?"
The revolutionary and the guerrilla require Mao's "sea" of cooperative (or at least non-hostile) people to "swim" in. Nothing is more unlike that environment than the U.S.'s "see something, say something" population.
TL;DR: The masses of asses will remain inert until the Soylent Green - "Scoops" come for them.