So? When Will The Storming Of The Winter Palace

[Beacho]

Begin?


recently I reversed course about leaving the country for good, which is another story.


Since I decided to stay, I faced what I was trying to run from, that being the concentration of wealth increasing to the point where people will revolt.

Will they be convinced not to?

How?

If not, how much will the MAJORITY of the population deal with being economically disenfrachised?

What will the one percent do to maintian their control?

I'm quite surpised that we haven't had some 'lamp post justice' yet, one of the reasons that I decided to leave.


So, at what point do the masses storm the Winter Palace?

[Maple]

1. They won't

Ever.

[Beacho]

2. OK

What makes you so sure?


By the by, I share your sentiment to some degree

But frickin' why?

[Maple]

4. Most people

wouldn't dream of going up against the govt.

Most people don't see any reason to ask for that kind of trouble.

Most people live their lives, and don't pay any attention to what goes on around them.

The economy has been poor before, there are always wars...life goes on.

[The Zanti Regent]

9. Sad truth is that a lot of folks believe the rapture stuff

and they believe Jesus is coming to get them in a week or 2; when he doesn't show up, they still believe he's coming in the next week.

[DivinBreuvage]

3. Battleship Potemkin?

I read an article a while back -- it might even have been here on DU -- which described the conditions aboard a US aircraft carrier. According to the article, the officers, specialists and such lived like, well, officers, while the unskilled multitudes who did the dirty work lived belowdecks in sweltering, miserable, chaotic conditions that the author compared to life aboard an 18th-century man-of-war. It's been a while, but I vaguely recall the author musing over the powerdkeg potential of the situation.

[Beacho]

6. wow, good supporting reference

to the 'Winter Palace' anology.


methinks the 'Winter Palace' scenario will happen before a 'Potemkin'.


That being said, I only forward an anology, not a repeat of history.

[DivinBreuvage]

8. I just finished reading "The Last Tsar" by Edvard Radzinski

My head is full of that stuff right about now.

Francoise

[htuttle]

10. History doesn't repeat itself...

...but sometimes it rhymes.

[mot78]

5. I don't think * will go as easily as Karensky..then again Karensky fled

[Jim Sagle]

7. w will nuke us if we give him too much trouble.

[jpgray]

11. We are one LOOOONG ways from a revolt

People will be happy with the smallest of conveniences--they will sell the intangible freedoms for something brief and pleasing. We are entertained by spectacles and indocrinated in materialism, and more than that we are living well, if judged by the world standard. The Russians before their own revolt, for example, were tolerating an existence that most Americans couldn't conceive of--and they did it for quite a long while.