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Originally Posted by Chango
Revolutions don't just happen...they are plotted and executed by a specific group or organization that wants to take power. All the people protesting and rioting in the the streets are their cannon-fodder, pure and simple.
The cannon-fodder is always idealistic and pretty much unaware of what they are getting themselves into. They never seem to realize that the world they are fighting for probably isn't gonna happen; if their side takes power, history shows that it almost always makes a worse government than the one it replaced.
I am not afraid of our government today. Sure it has serious problems and is run by some embarassingly stupid people, but damn can it get worse!
I wonder how many Germans in 1945 wished they were back in the good days of Weimar when you had to use a wheelbarrow to haul enough cash to buy bread... but at least you could still get bread, your house was still standing and half your family wasn't dead.
So who is our future Hitler, Mao Zedong, Pol Pot or Pinochet? He will be part of the same group trying to incite a revolution now...
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I think you define a coup rather than a revolution. See the one in Libya...they could not have been more disorganized or lacking in leadership. In fact of leadership and organization worked Ghaddafi would still be in power.
I don't think our's was very well organized either.
Now the civil war had organization behind it. But it too was filled with odd outcomes.
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