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.   

I believe in the free-market and meritocracy, but not for the sake of it, I believe in it because it does good. It provides an incentive and dishes out rewards fairly and with respect to the amount of good a person has done for the economy. Do people here at least agree with these guidelines? For instance hypothetically...

Let's say it is proven that there is program which would end homelessness, put the homeless to work and create new taxpayers who will cover the costs of the program. Unfortunately this program takes one year to complete and during that year taxes have to go up by 1%, they would of course go down the following year due to the new taxpayers in the economy. Is it justified to have this program? Of course it fucking is, if it turns every homeless person into a taxpayer for just 1 year of an increase of 1% tax it has to be good.

Is anyone such a greedy motherfucker they would disagree with this?


Let's say for 20 years this program slowly bloats into a huge inefficient morass due to corruption and bureacracy and people look at it and say "do we really need this?", they are reminded that it prevents homelessness, but they decide that homeless people should just get a job on their own accord instead of being given a free ride and the program isn't necessary. People begin to become homeless again.

I think this about sums up broadly what is happenning in real life, people are angry that the government takes so much cash, but they fail to realise government isn't bad for the sake of it being the government, it is bad because it is run badly and it is run badly because people fail to realise it is a monopoly and that more incentive and realism than just charity and blunt statistics is needed to ensure the efficiency of government programs.

What we need to do is to acknowledge the good and bad of different systems instead of zealously and blindly following them.