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.   

we depend on our government too much to ever rise against it. without the governemt, probably well over half the population would not be able to make it. there aren't enough jobs and enough money to pay for everyone, so the government gives us fake money that comes from thin fucking air to make us happy.

and thus the value of a dollar goes up, etc etc.

either way, america's most recent revolution has already happened. the government has complete control of all of it's citizens through fear. we have troops on 8/10 of the world. even if our "government" were to fall, it would live on. Our leaders are only pawns, and our system is just for show.

not only that, but we're all turning into lazy fucks. how do you inspire millions of lazy fucks to actually get together and do things? 10% of our internet users are on broadband, most people have no computer skills, and it would be too hard to rally people in mass without that resource. especially since we're all being monitored.

welcome to the republic of america; rome revisited.