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In reply to the discussion: What will the "revolution" look like when people have had enough? [View all]Savannahmann
(3,891 posts)It won't be one group, or three groups if it happens. The only way I see it is many groups all settling grudges.
As an example from the news this week. A boy ran in front of a pick up truck in Detroit. The video clearly shows (according to reports) that the driver had no time to stop. It was an accident by any definition of the word. The driver did not attempt to flee the scene. He lept from his truck apparently horrified at what had just happened. He was moving to the child to render what aid he could. The driver was white. The boy, and the crowd was black. The crowd beat the driver nearly to death. The driver is on life support as of the last updat I saw. In a coma, his survival questionable at best. The boy will be out of the hospital long before the driver is released.
So what happened? IMO the crowd reacted to the perception. The blacks have been abused and taken advantage of and mistreated for so long they snapped. This was the moment for revenge at every slight, every brown child who's been killed by a white man. Every cop who as harassed and abused them. The crowd did not see a horrific accident. The nightmare scenario of every driver. They saw a boy laying on the ground, and a man who did not look like them. That was enough, it was too much.
That is how the revolution is going to come. Hatred based upon color, on religion, on rich versus poor right versus left. Baptists will hate Catholics, and they'll both hate Muslims. Jews and Protestents. Neighbors will hate and act out.
Many people use this scenario to arm themselves. They buy canned food and weapons and mounds of bullets. I am not. I won't say I can see no reason to kill another man. But I won't spend my time, or energy, or money, buying hated guns and making plans to kill anyone who is unlike me. I'm not sure I want to live in that world.
The revolution my start as a workers revolt, but it will escalate and become a nightmare of groups seeking revenge for slights and abuses real or imagined. This is the only scenario I've been able to come up with that takes into account all the anger, the resentment, and the hostility.
I hope that I'm already dead when this begins, because I really don't want to see it.