Reply #36: It's almost cliche to say, but I think many on DU would find their lifestyles aren't going to be

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quite so comfortable once "revolution" erupts in the US.

You don't get to devote hours a day to messageboards and political news when you're starving because the grocery stores are empty due to blockades, and you can't visit your family across town because of checkpoints set up by rebels, and you haven't slept very well due to the constant sounds of gunfire and mortars in the neighborhood adjacent to you.

There was an article posted here a week or so ago by some military guy saying something similar, but to the teabaggers. I wish I'd bookmarked it.