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"Shit's Gonna Hit the Fan:" Talking to a Billionaire About Class War
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RE: "Shit's Gonna Hit the Fan:" Talking to a Billionaire About Class War
(June 16, 2015 at 4:17 pm)Minimalist Wrote: The issue that will start trouble is not taxation but income inequality and the arrogance of the ruling class.  That's France in 1789.

The French Revolution was 74 years in the making.   It's only been about 30 years since Reagan.

Also, instead of the French Revolution, I think the U.S. would go down the path of republican Rome, undergo a series of incomplete internal popularist evolutions and oligarchical counter revolutions all the while keeping the facade of republic intact, and eventually the levels of internal violence and instability would Escalate, while opportunistists seek a big opening through foreign aggragizements.   Provided we don't get smacked down by some foreign power as we attempt various foreign ventures, some cunning opportunistic bastard from traditional moneyed class will seize up plebeian anger and launch a pseudo-popularist, military backed dictatorship, which would nonetheless still retain the trapping of the former republic.

For Rome the process took 150 years.
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RE: "Shit's Gonna Hit the Fan:" Talking to a Billionaire About Class War - by Anomalocaris - June 16, 2015 at 8:27 pm

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