The
Top Ten
Things That Could
Trigger
The Revolution
(In
No Particular Order)
The Price of Gasoline Hits $25 Per Gallon in the US
This often-mentioned scenario seems a sure bet to bring about an uprising of the workers against the bourgeoisie.
The
trigger
doesn’t even necessarily have to be gasoline or heating costs or the
price of bread or milk or
medicine like insulin,
either. Some consumer item that the vast majority of Americans need
and can’t go without for long will hit an all-time record
high
price and
nobody will be able to get to work or school or feed their families
or
simply stay alive.
Surely that sort of deprivation would make people angry enough to get
them off their couches and out into the streets to start
a revolution, right?
Combined
with a General Strike, an outraged populace that demands the means of
production and the public utilities, such as water, natural gas,
electricity, and even internet access, be placed in the hands of the
people has all the markings of a successful revolution causing the complete downfall of
our current corrupt economic system. The end of for-profit
enterprises that control basic human rights, such as the right to
health care, the right to food and shelter, and the right not
to freeze in the winter or bake to death in the summer can’t come soon
enough.
A
Wide-Scale
Plague or The Complete Destruction of Our Environment Kills Millions
Too
late—this trigger has already occurred. Look outside your window.
Do you see anyone protesting about how over a million Americans
needlessly have died (and are still dying) due to COVID-19 or Long
COVID? No, you’re more likely to see people staring at you if you
continue to mask-up for your own protection in crowded public places.
You’re more likely to read social media posts complaining about the
“Vaccination Conspiracy” than you are to see Americans livid
about how we still don’t have universal health care. Family members
and friends dropping over dead prematurely obviously doesn’t make
the majority of Americans mad at America's
for-profit/for-the-people's-suffering healthcare industry.
Extinction
Rebellion is working hard to make more Americans aware of just how
dire a state our environment is in, but the mainstream media outlets
choose to ignore those stories. Instead, we’re more likely to see
and read stories about how hard-working the fossil fuel and nuclear power industries
are, and that it’s okay to pay $5 or more a gallon to fuel your car
because it means “freedom and democracy” in another God-forsaken,
fossil
fuel-filled country.
TV
weather-persons smile and casually pronounce statements such as,
“This temperature breaks our record for most days above 100 degrees in a single
summer,” without batting an eyelash. Until more Americans actually
suffer and die because they can’t afford air conditioning or home heating,
climate change will never be “real” to them. Alas, by the time
they do become angry enough to revolt over the destruction of our
environment because of the capitalists’
insatiable
greed, we'll all be totally screwed. Which
leads us to our next trigger...
The
Petrodollar Totally Collapses, Green Energy Reigns, and the Beauty of MMT Shines Through
Saudi
Arabia doesn’t care if it sells the US oil anymore—at least not
in the way we want them to buy and sell oil to us and others. Few
Americans realize that there is nothing backing up our currency
except what we say it is worth in regards to—yeah, you guessed
it—petroleum. There is no gold or silver in our vaults backing up
the cash that our treasury prints or simply puts into zeroes
and ones on a bank computer. It’s just so much worthless paper.
(Read up on MMT or Modern Monetary Theory to see what I mean.)
When
the Earth becomes too warm or too stormy because of Western nations
burning fossil fuels for the past two hundred years, we will have to
kick the fossil fuel habit. Petroleum will be worthless as will our
money. Americans will be freed from a market economy that works only
for the very rich. This could very well bring about a semi-peaceful
revolution if those in charge graciously give up the game that
somehow human beings come with price tags, and we all
agree to work together in order to feed
and nurture
each other and build a society based upon green energy sources and practices instead. But
then...
Somebody in a Position of Power Will Say Something Really, Really
Stupid
I
can see how Marie
Antoinette
saying to
the French masses
“Let them eat cake!” could piss them
off and
cause
them to get out the pitchforks and guillotines. “Let them eat
cake!” is insulting, and it rubs salt in the wounds of those who
are hungry and struggling. But many powerful people say stupid,
insulting, wounding things on a daily basis in
the US,
and the revolution hasn’t
begun yet.
Just
recently, Joe Biden sent billions of dollars to a proxy war in
Ukraine so that ordinary Ukrainians could “have something in their
pockets” without once blinking an eye at how that stupid, cruel
statement sounded to poor, struggling Americans. He and his friends
in their half of the duopoly claimed that they would give all
Americans “$2,000 relief checks” but only $1,400 was forthcoming.
The guillotines are still in their sheds. So saying stupid things,
doing stupid things, and outright gaslighting and lying is nothing
new. No one marches in the streets for very long about anything any
American politician says.
Maybe
something else is needed?
The War Machine Will Figure It’s Time to Drop “The Bomb”
This
could start—and end—the revolution in one day. I’ll
say the threat of starting a nuclear war is more likely to upset a
lot of people and possibly stir things up enough to get a
multitude of protesters
into the streets. But lately there are some pundits
who
state
that nuclear war is winnable or claim
that
radiation isn’t all
that
lethal—at least it’s not lethal to them and theirs they
figure.
That’s probably
because
they are part of the elites who own underground bunkers in remote
places like New Zealand. When
you have such a vast disparity between “haves” (with bunkers) and
“have nots” (the rest of us) does it make revolution impossible
or inevitable if
any country intentionally or accidentally drops a nuke on
another country?
The
War Profiteers Decide That Class Warfare Is Good for Business
This
unsettling scenario takes the reality of our world and allows
the
war
machine to twist
it into its own sick
and greedy end. And it’s the ultimate in cynicism. The capitalists
figure that it’s easier to make money by watching the class divide
widen
and the
poor and the rich become
even more antagonistic and violent toward one another. The arms
manufacturers sit
back on the sidelines and sell arms to everyone… Because money is
money and capitalists know no morality.
The
revolution that takes place in
this case most
likely won’t be one where the working classes end up on top. War
Profiteers won’t let their class lose. This
means those with the most armaments and mercenaries will force their
viewpoint upon the losers using violent and oppressive means. A
military dictatorship would form and the corrupt system of capitalism
will flourish the way it has for the past several hundred years in
the West. Really, it’s just more of the same. We won’t know any
different unless...
The Mainstream Media Pundits Tire of Shoveling Bullsh*t at
Us (and Everyone Wakes Up to the Propaganda and Revolts)
I’m
hopeful this scenario will happen sooner rather than later, but I’m
a realist. When you have talking heads on TV news channels like
Rachel Maddow making $30 million plus yearly, you’ve got a lot of
greedy people who are willing to put their journalistic integrity to
sleep. Can you blame them? It’s so easy to let the CIA and the
Ministry of Truth give you your talking points, isn’t it?
The
best we can hope for at the present time is to wake up as many people
as possible by introducing them to independent journalism and
refuting the lies put out by the MSM. Rad Indie Media is one such
website where you can find links to many articles and podcasts that
the mainstream media can’t be bothered with. But without an open
mind will those who have been spoon-fed government propaganda for
decades be able to learn to think for themselves? It might take a
miracle or...
Aliens or Time Travelers from an Alternate Reality Arrive and
Bring About World Equality and Peace
Wishful
thinking, but maybe, just maybe, there’s somebody out there who
wants us to survive as a species and
are willing to come here and do all the heavy lifting.
You wouldn’t believe how many people are hoping and praying for
this to happen. Then again, maybe you’re one of them. Keep the
faith but also
keep fighting. If
I were an alien (the thin, gray, big-eyed kind, not the undocumented
kind likely to be deported) I would skip Earth and go elsewhere to
find intelligent and compassionate life. Because until we demonstrate
that we humans really care about each other, why should other life
forms from other worlds give a sh*t about us?
Mutual Aid Networks and Other Community-Based Organizations Support
the Working Classes as the Ruling Classes Fade
Away
This
is the sunniest of all scenarios when it comes to a peaceful
revolution that replaces the death-worshiping, capitalist society in which
we
currently reside. The
workers work around the dysfunctional system and take care of each
other via
mutual aid networks
while the
society
of the 1%
gradually falls apart through their own lack of cooperation.
Don’t
worry, though.
It’s
possible that
some
of
the super-wealthy
will catch on and join the rest of us in
sharing food, shelter, clothing, medicines and other aid.
Maybe
they feel trapped in those big mansions and yachts? You'll never know
unless you try to liberate them from their prisons of wealth.
And
number ten? That’s where you come in. Tell us what you think will
be the defining moment, the trigger, that will lead Americans into a
second revolution, a revolution of the proletariat, the workers, bringing about a more just and equitable society. Leave your comments below and
don’t be afraid to come up with more positive scenarios. We could
all do with some cheering up in these dark autumn days.
Power
to the people!
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Patrick Lawrence: The Non-West Coalesces https://scheerpost.com/2022/10/16/patrick-lawrence-the-non-west-coalesces/
The Profoundly Stupid Narrative That Nuclear Brinkmanship is Safety and De-Escalation is Danger https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/the-profoundly-stupid-narrative-that
The Capitalist State Is Deathly Afraid of Losing the Information War https://rainershea.substack.com/p/the-capitalist-state-is-deathly-afraid
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