Cultural revolutions? Sure they can.

rofl this

^Well that's exactly what we need.

Egypt!

So much for "revolutions can't happen in this day and age..."

Good job Egypt :thumbsup:

You say you want a revolution? Well, here you go.

We shall see how much the regime is changed now that Mubarak is gone. I'm not sure we'll necessarily get a democratic regime though. First-timers to elections tend to have trouble.

Also, I think they actually used Facebook to coordinate one of the protests? I was joking before, but... Nice!

The first set of posts in the threat seem a bit silly now. Nice find Povu.

I think it might be difficult in the US at this particular moment but the dynamic of population is very quick. In less than 2-3 years, a country can move from very quiet to unstable.
That being said, USA represents 4.4% of the world population. I believe that for the remaining of the world i.e. more than 95%, revolutions can happen.
With guns, with blood...

This is what I said.

When I was in the university, our sociology professor always said 2 things:
"Nothing is more dangerous than a middle class getting poorer"
"Riots are made by the lower classes and the students. Then the middle class can take it to make a revolution"

All revolutions were hijacked by middle class. You think Lenin was a moujik ? Or Danton, a peasant ? Or Castro, a worker in a cigar factory ? They all came from the middle class. In Tunisia, the riots in the street were first by students, joined by the people in the suburbs. Who do you think is ruling Tunisia now ?
Who do you think will take over after the army ?

VIVA LA REVOLUTION! I don't think we will have a revolution in the America's. Maybe in Egypt. People are pretty angry in Cairo.

For the better or for the worse.. :celebration:

It's too early to make any predictions, but we will see DarthRavanger, we will see.

In the US? Maybe, if the cause is good enough to call for a revolution of course but it'd have to be a damn good one. I mean, we can easily get guns and the supplies to make explosives and I mean hell, look at Egypt, all they had was rocks and stuff and they still managed to overthrow their government. But like most other first-world countries the people have become more lazy and will do what the government tells them to without question so I guess it wouldn't be as easy to rally the people for a revolution.

But if we did have one I can tell you one thing, it'd one hell of a fight.

With everything going on in Egypt I thought this was a stupid question to ask, till I read the date of the post :sweat:
viva la revolution \O/

The sooner one happens in Texas, the better.

I wouldn't use egypt as an example when thinking about the possibility for a revolution in America. Very different circumstances. Also, the egyptian military did not fire on the protestors. The protestors didn't even fight the military really, they mostly dealt with looters, and the interior ministry's security forces. Also, Mubarak technically resigned, and Egypt is currently controlled by the Egyptian military. Consider that Mubarak was a military man. THe Egyptian regime did not fall. Mubarak just left. Though the Egyptian regime may change to a democratic regime.

edit1: what kind of revolution can occur in America? America has a strong democratic regime with a constitution that's a step or two down from the bible in terms of how much people revere it. We have a very strong traditon of peaceful exchange of power and we have a very high standard of living compared to say, Tunisia. We're not in in the proper state for a revolt.

I guess you're right but hey, the cause was still good enough to rally people.

@Verlox

Why Texas?

I was thinking the same thing, the only reason for a revolt in America would be if people wanted to change the entire constitution for some reason. The constitution gives Americans the ability to elect their leaders and has ways to even overthrow power with any revolution. Plus the leaders aren't really in power that long anyway

There is no need for a revolution in the US, and there will probably never be one again, unless the people want to fundamentally change the system of government from a democracy to something else, ie toss out the constitution, break up the states/secede, etc. You can thank presidential term limits, the power of congress to impeach/toss out the president, and an extremely powerful military that would almost surely prevent or try to prevent any uprising aimed at overthrowing the government and breaking up the country.

Look at what's going on in Egypt right as I type. THOUSANDS are on unfriendly terms with the president, and so they went to Cairo en masse to tell the president and the government how they feel. Will it be the same as 300 years ago? No. But we as humans are stubborn and we'll fight for what we feel is right and against what we feel is wrong so it is always a possibility in certain countries, like Egypt now.
EDIT: sorry, just realized someone else mentioned Egypt.

Not now maybe but times do change. As far as the military: Are you so sure they'd prevent an uprising? Do you think they'd be able to fire on fellow Americans?

However, a more likely scenario in the US is civil war not revolution.