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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          This part that argued with my post
  "b. "also there is the fact people capable of running that kind of operation are few and far between" I think you and I both know this line is bullshit"

     You are kidding right?  you think anyone can just wake up one morning and run a multibillion dollar corporation?  You think you can?  How much do you know about Corporate labor law?  How much do you know about corporate anti-trust law?  how much do you understand about running a business at all?  how much do you know about corporate tax law?  how much do you know about organizing billion dollar budgets into million dollar projects and decided which of them are worth keeping and which aren't?  Do you even have a concept of what a billion dollars is?  I don't, thats for sure.  More money than i can imagine easily.  I mean a million dollars is an apocalyptic shit load t me.  and a thousand appocalytic shit loads of money is well beyond my scale of comprehension.  If anyone is capeable of understanding that kind of issue, why is it that 75% of lottery winners declare bankruptcy in under 10 years.  they spend it all.  they look at a big ass, apocalyptic shit load of money and assume they can keep on taking money out of the pile and there will still be pleanty left.  It's eventually all gone.  and i am not presently capeable of running such an operation, i will come out and say it.  If people are capeable of knowing how to spend money on that level how come the govenment has a 20,000,000,000,000 dollars debt.  do you know how much money that is.  its exactly 20 appocalyptic shitloads of apocalyptic shitloads of money to me.  Hell, i am willing to bet there are CEOs of multi-billion dollar corporations that can't get their mind around that much money.  Bill Gates looks at that much money and wonders how the hell all those zeros get in one number. and i am not presently capeable of running such an operation?  Those people capeable of understanding on this level are few and far between, not so much because most people are born unable to understand these things, but becase the conditioning just isn't there for most people to understand these things.