American Revolution

So really, what are the chances of an uprising in modern day America?  Not only do you have police everywhere, along with National Guard/Reserves and regular military bases throughout the country, but anyone that dares to fight  is an automatic criminal/militia/fanatic/terrorist.  Of course that means you're judged by the very rules you're trying to overthrow... but what chance is there that someone could overthrow the country's entire rule system and start from scatch, or even have the support of the majority of the people who watch TV and see everything thtrough a filtered media that puts negative spin in order to dissuade the efforts of a revolution?  The problem is the majority of the population is content and complacent.  Revolutions occur when the majority is poor, pissed off, and tired of the current system.  It would require people to have no access to their books, television, movies, computers, video games, or anything else to distract them.  It would require wealth to diminish to nothing, houses to lose their value, and utilities and public programs to become completely ineffective.  I don't see any of this happening unless the US is assraped by the Middle East or communist Asia.   

>>17
Capitalism isn't based on how hard you work or how much effort you put into what you do. A CEO likely does far less work in his life overall then one of his employees and isn't as essential as one would think. What your thinking is actually, and quite ironically, more like socialism which can be best summed up with the sentence "from each according to their ability, to each according to their accomplishments." Thats where socialism differs from communism which is "to each according to their needs."

>>18
There would still be positions of management with more responsibility/influence. While economic differences would be done away with providing everyone with more-or-less equal economic status there would still be more powerful positions for advancement. It just comes at less of a price for the rest of society and brings more balance to things. Some may say that its also far easier to regulate and prevent abuses.