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.   

>>64
speaks the truth.

if at the age of 18 you were supplied a house, a car, and a large sum of money to spend in whatever way you chose, how awesome would that be? you'd never starve. never have to worry about paying the bills.

generally, you would only be required to live. you could start a buisness, or maybe go to college. of course there would be those who would spend it all on drugs, booze, and bitches, but hey, at least they would have somewhere to go home to.

of course this requires that everyone has a job, and recieves generally nothing but security from it.

there inlies the problems. human beings are too consumed by greed to ever exist in a state of peace. the chances of utopia are only logical in a setting where the entire world had basically been destroyed, and those left needed to survive.

aka brave new world