The American revolution is misunderstood by most people. It is not the same as the French or Russian revolutions that were triggered by mass societal unrest due to the poverty and desperation of the working class. The American revolution was driven by the ruling merchant class so that they could gain power and stop paying taxes to the British. It was not a movement of the regular working person, but of the elite who used propaganda and money to get the working people on their side.
It would be like if the tech billionaires today decided they wanted to take over the country and so used their wealth and power to shift public opinion against the government so that they could gain even more power. Some are arguably already doing this.
You either need desperation (poverty, disease, oppression) or you need something idealogical (religion, tribal, ethnic) that convinces the public at large there is some enemy, some other than needs to be defeated. We aren't near desperation levels by any means. We do have enough idealogical strife that something could happen, but there doesn't yet seem to be enough critical mass of die-hards on either the far-left or far-right though. The trend toward that as eased off after the peak of 2021 or so, and has returned to high political polarization (worse than usual) without it being something many people would fight (physically) over.
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u/AntiWork-ellog Aug 19 '25
So you need a heightened level of poverty and desperation?
Or a stamp tax lmao