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.   

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I think the concept of making someone who has more money than others pay for more than them is immoral. Why would I need to give away more just because I have more? I worked hard to earn it and so I should be punished by paying for people who didn't work at all?

Not really an incentive to work harder. The only reason it works the way it is implemented right now is because the net result still means you are left with more than the bum. But you have no control over that money either. Your cash gets used to support ideas introduced the government that you could not even agree with.

I think people who pay more taxes than others should have more of a say in what happens with that money, or politics in general. Maybe money should be tied to how much your vote is worth, and if you pay more to the government, your vote is rated higher. That's the most "moral" solution, and it is also flawed.