“The author is delusional. If Britain hasn’t had a civil uprising by now, it’s never going to have one.”
You need to remember what Jefferson said about overthrowing governments in the Declaration of Independence:
“Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by,abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government...”
Desperate people will do desperate things when there is no out.
> Desperate people will do desperate things when there is no out. <
True that.
But the people of Europe are by and large unarmed. All they can do is make noise and throw rocks. So I guess it all depends on the police and the army.
The Romanian revolution of 1989 was an amazing thing. The army almost instantly pivoted from being pro-government to being pro-people.
Could we see the same thing in Western Europe? I doubt it. But you never know.