I think the reason there is no revolt yet, is there is no 'trigger'. and the dumbest things you could imagine may become that trigger. such as let them eat cake, and wham, bang, all the nasty cartoons vilifying a woefully unaware foreign queen are quoted as truth and used to overthrow a monarchy that was not really any worse than the ones before, and next thing you know, heads are flying... literally.
some revolts, I think, are a result of an opportunist seeing an opening and exploiting it, but still, they also need to find that trigger, the one thing that will galvanize the masses, turn sheep into a raging mob.
what it will take for the population of the US to say ENOUGH, I don't know. So far, you have had a president murdered, his brother murdered, a leading peace activist murdered, and all that in about a five-year stretch. plus, Kent State killings of 4 students, two of whom were not even involved in the protests that took place that May.
the death of those 4 students sent a shock wave through the nation that contributed to the change in opinion regarding the Vietnam war; all the thousands and thousands of civilians and soldiers killed during that war couldn't get the attention of anyone who lived in middleclass suburbia, but 4 students dying made a huge difference.
The way these events are played out in the media has a huge influence on what we despise, what we accept, and what we ignore. go back to Marie Antoinnette and take a gander at some of the woodcuts depicting her as a whore, a witch, an eater of children... come back to present day and see who has taken her place. Bernie Madoff and other white-collar criminals whose crimes, while devastating to those who lost their savings, are nowhere near as heinous as anything done by arms dealers who wine and dine the leaders of the free world through the back door, and the leaders of the not-so-free world through the front.
so, you never know what is going to be noticed, what is going to get the message across.
long rant, another one of those nights where my pollyanna optimism took a dive...
