The American Left is lucky that their foe is the American Right, because as a rule American conservatives are too polite or too interested in their own affairs to really kick ass, even though they could. By the same token, American conservatives are lucky to have the American Left as foes, because as a rule the American Left is too stupid and too cowardly to actually pick a real fight.
If one were gunning for revolution (no pun intended), then the best way would be to get one or the other side so pissed off that they really start fighting. The Left might be easiest, given that they're stupid, but the Right has more to be pissed off about if they'd ever pay attention. Getting them to really pay attention is seemingly unlikely, but the advent of Limbaugh, Fox, and Beck may change this.
But, in the American system of politics, whoever is the most pissed off can generally win elections, which usually serves to satisfy many of the most pissed people for awhile.
So as a rule, the American system in the current political climate is designed in such a way as to keep a certain percentage of people pissed off all the time, but never quite to revolutionary levels. It's like a boiler that never boils over. This has served the Left well, of course, since some of them have long vision (e.g. Stalin's comment on slow takeover, the statements of Obama and others that nationalized health care is the goal with stuff like the "government option" being a long slow segue to that, and so on).
The trick for pro-revolutionaries, then, is that time be compressed to get one side or the other totally pissed off in less than the election cycle. In other words, either an Obama has to get busy trying to nationalize the economy, or else another Bush-the-Younger has to get busy re-establishing the Constitution.
Given how busy Obama's been on his task, it appears that the Right may take a bit longer to actually get revolutionary, unless Obama accelerates and the Right gets even more pissed. The Left, of course, was getting revolutionary even when Bush the Younger was in office, which is when the Republicans were, for the most part, lazy bastards (which is the proper thing for government to be, rather than busybodies involving themselves in absolutely everything).
So, if there is to be revolution in the near future, I predict it will come when the government becomes busy-conservative. The Leftist revolutionaries will no doubt point fingers and try to make the Tea Parties and such out as the genesis of their own revolutionist tendencies and the environment that 'required' it (since, of course, they're pussies who can't accept blame on their own), but I think its true genesis will have been simply the derailment of the past century of Leftist victories.
If one were gunning for revolution (no pun intended), then the best way would be to get one or the other side so pissed off that they really start fighting. The Left might be easiest, given that they're stupid, but the Right has more to be pissed off about if they'd ever pay attention. Getting them to really pay attention is seemingly unlikely, but the advent of Limbaugh, Fox, and Beck may change this.
But, in the American system of politics, whoever is the most pissed off can generally win elections, which usually serves to satisfy many of the most pissed people for awhile.
So as a rule, the American system in the current political climate is designed in such a way as to keep a certain percentage of people pissed off all the time, but never quite to revolutionary levels. It's like a boiler that never boils over. This has served the Left well, of course, since some of them have long vision (e.g. Stalin's comment on slow takeover, the statements of Obama and others that nationalized health care is the goal with stuff like the "government option" being a long slow segue to that, and so on).
The trick for pro-revolutionaries, then, is that time be compressed to get one side or the other totally pissed off in less than the election cycle. In other words, either an Obama has to get busy trying to nationalize the economy, or else another Bush-the-Younger has to get busy re-establishing the Constitution.
Given how busy Obama's been on his task, it appears that the Right may take a bit longer to actually get revolutionary, unless Obama accelerates and the Right gets even more pissed. The Left, of course, was getting revolutionary even when Bush the Younger was in office, which is when the Republicans were, for the most part, lazy bastards (which is the proper thing for government to be, rather than busybodies involving themselves in absolutely everything).
So, if there is to be revolution in the near future, I predict it will come when the government becomes busy-conservative. The Leftist revolutionaries will no doubt point fingers and try to make the Tea Parties and such out as the genesis of their own revolutionist tendencies and the environment that 'required' it (since, of course, they're pussies who can't accept blame on their own), but I think its true genesis will have been simply the derailment of the past century of Leftist victories.
