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In reply to the discussion: Why They Get Away With Cutting Welfare [View all]CaptainTruth
(6,576 posts)However, I'm not willing to give up on Fact 7. Consider the history of China, over thousands of years, corrupt govts (power classes in general) were overthrown by angry masses with pitchforks & flaming torches. That is the only hope I have for America. Witness all the recent protests. Witness people like myself, a 50-something white male with a moderate middle-class background (never radical, never owned a gun, never felt so mad about anything in this county that I felt driven to fight for it) but now, I'm so angry about what I see, & I have given up on the possibility of political solutions, that if the pitchforks & torches start coming out I will be there. A lot of us "quiet, average" people have been pushed to a tipping point & if the right (or wrong) things happen there will be revolt. If the Power Class makes it clear that violence is the only language they understand, then that is what they will hear.
I pray it doesn't come to that, it's the last thing I want, but when people are pushed to the point where there is only one option, that is the option they will choose.