Posted on 02/08/2009 9:41:39 AM PST by Steelfish
Why There Won’t Be a Revolution
Americans might get angry sometimes, but we don't hate the rich. We prefer to laugh at them.
The poor you will always have, the good book says, but as for the rich man, he will wither away like a delicate flower in the midday sun.
The first prediction has certainly been borne out, but the second part (James 1:11) had not yet come to pass by the Panic of 1907, when Theodore Roosevelt warned of a coming reckoning against the "malefactors of great wealth."
Nor by 1990, when former Nixon aide Kevin Phillips predicted that Americans would rise to extract revenge on "the rich who got the benefits of the go-go years" of the 1980s.
As late as 2001, no less an authority than, uh, NEWSWEEK wrote in the wake of 9/11 that "the arrogant wheeler-dealer ordering a $600 bottle of wine with dinner … has vanished utterly as an icon," which remained true until approximately 2002.
Well, listen up, you rich guys, this time we really mean it. The president himself is repelled by your rapacious greed, your kids are ashamed to admit that their mom is a banker, even your girlfriends are sick of your whining about your bonus, and you're going to have to learn to live on $500,000 a year like a normal person.
Oh, and by the way, nice watch. Is it Cartier?
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When the Democrats destroy the free market and crash our economy, there WILL be a revolution - just not against corporate America.
Actually, those fools out in the country are armed to the teeth, with several weapons within easy reach at all times, including while working in the garage and out and about.
They are usually more self sustaining, and will have a much easier time of staying alive and defending from the "hordes" than those who dwell in town, and depend on transportation and shipping for food, water, shelter, clothing, heat, police and fire protection, which all can be indefinately suspended by one accident on a major inbound artery.
There won’t be a revolution, we’ll become like Argentina, and Absolute Zero is our Peron.
Guess it depends on what region of the countryside you hang.
I love how the study done by the political "scientists" is completely nonresponsive to the economic argument.
Drunken State for starters. We all know what deadbeats drunks are.
I think this author completely missed the boat on what the revolution will be. People are coming to the point where they are angry enough to burn DC to the ground. It won’t be the rich we are after it will be those who are in power for their own self serving reasons.
It is simple to learn. And actually killing is even easier. Just pull the trigger. How hard is that?
Baby Boomers embraced abortion, Feminism, Bill Clinton and Obama. They have no common sense. They plan to retire in luxury - nothing stops them from getting what they want.
“It’s not the rich that will be the target of any American Revolution. It will be the usurpers and commissars. It will be against those domestic enemies who violate the most basic and well understood terms of the Constitution.”
That’s a fact. The left always assumes a revolution must be founded on the have-nots going after the haves. That won’t happen here. What will happen here is the right fighting the left, regardless of wealth or lack thereof. It will be those who revere what the Founders intended and created and the Constitution drafted to ensure that, against those who believe the Constitution is a flawed document that can be interpreted willy-nilly to fit one’s own agenda and who believe the Founders were racist extremists who sought to oppress the masses.
That revolution is just over the horizon.
“More likely, it will be an anti-Marxist revolution.”
Exactly.
Vermont (voted 68% Obama)
Rhode Island (63% Obama)
Illinois (62% Obama)
Massachusetts (62% Obama)
Delaware (62% Obama)
Maryland (62% Obama)
New York (62% Obama)
California (61% Obama)
Connecticut (61% Obama)
District of Columbia, not a state but worth sending away with the deadbeat states so they can have their own seat of government too, one that exemplifies their values or lack thereof. (93% Obama)
As for the socialist states that were not overwhelmingly for Obama, I'd be happy to give them their choice on whether to be expelled with the welfare states or to stay with the productive states. It may be that the best way forward as the United States is to give the new age values free reign in the areas that want to try them, while keeping the more traditional parts of the country strong.
Yup. I have my 9mm Ruger in a zip-lock bag (humidity) underneath the overhang of the dog house. My .38 special is...well, you get the idea.
There’ll be no revolution because the necessary ingredients are not yet aligned. Give the loon and his loonies about a year or two and let’s revisit this.
Revolutions don’t occur when the population is well fed and well entertained.
If there is a revolution,it won’t be the rich people that Americans will be after.There are much more deserving targets out there.
LOL, really! I don’t hear anybody griping about the rich.
Not a revolution, but they may have to remove some stars from the flag.
That would work just fine as long as my state is on that list.
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