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<blockquote data-quote="curiousbrain" data-source="post: 810617" data-attributes="member: 31608"><p>I had an interesting professor in college who advocated the point (as most historians do, if he was to be believed) that as long as there is a large enough middle class, with wealth enough to enjoy some luxuries of life and operate on the precept of some political representation, there would never (or, the odds were extremely slim) be a revolution of arms against the powers that be - in this case, the government.</p><p></p><p>This country, in my opinion, is very far (granted, closer then it was perhaps ten or twenty years ago, but still very far nonetheless) from that point. I have a job, you have a job, most people here have a job, and we all get by - not as well as some of us might like, but enough that we are content with it. There is a critical mass point, if you will, where the threshold will drop below some magic point of income versus the size of the middle class (and probably relative to a lot of other variables as well) and only then will you see real, true discontent manifest itself as political change.</p><p></p><p>The question of how it will manifest itself, peacefully or violently, is anyone's guess, I think.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="curiousbrain, post: 810617, member: 31608"] I had an interesting professor in college who advocated the point (as most historians do, if he was to be believed) that as long as there is a large enough middle class, with wealth enough to enjoy some luxuries of life and operate on the precept of some political representation, there would never (or, the odds were extremely slim) be a revolution of arms against the powers that be - in this case, the government. This country, in my opinion, is very far (granted, closer then it was perhaps ten or twenty years ago, but still very far nonetheless) from that point. I have a job, you have a job, most people here have a job, and we all get by - not as well as some of us might like, but enough that we are content with it. There is a critical mass point, if you will, where the threshold will drop below some magic point of income versus the size of the middle class (and probably relative to a lot of other variables as well) and only then will you see real, true discontent manifest itself as political change. The question of how it will manifest itself, peacefully or violently, is anyone's guess, I think. [/QUOTE]
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