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Populist_Prole

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20. Could be, but if so, it'll be before 2020
Sat Apr 27, 2013, 11:56 PM
Apr 2013

Depends where the graph curves cross:

Cons cater to the benighted that carry their water as long as they provide aid and comfort to paranoid gun nuts. But you see; those same people must be subdued when their usefulness outlives itself and the plutocrats no longer need them...and the rural conservatives finally realize it. If the oligarchy moves too fast to preclude the working class gun nuts fighting back, they lose momentum in the form of the lack of rural conservatives voting against their interests ( which is necessary to sustain the conservative movement ) but if they advance their plans to place 99 percent of the US in serfdom too fast, their formerly loyal rural conservatives ( and everybody else ) will turn on them with too much means to fight for the oligarchy's comfort.

Land of the Free. Hah. truebluegreen Apr 2013 #1
Yep, all a head game ... n/t RKP5637 Apr 2013 #2
I don't think a national revolution is probable, Bannakaffalatta Apr 2013 #3
Yep, I think what you've said is the likely scenario. n/t RKP5637 Apr 2013 #5
No. The logistics required make a true upheaval untenable in the US ProgressiveProfessor Apr 2013 #4
Possibly, with a side of hoping so... Earth_First Apr 2013 #6
I think at some point, there is a collective turning point wherein even RKP5637 Apr 2013 #8
What if the USSC issues a reinterpretation of 2A that outlaws private ownership of firearms cherokeeprogressive Apr 2013 #7
I have mixed feelings about 2A, because the outlaw of private ownership of firearms seems to RKP5637 Apr 2013 #10
Personally, I don't think there IS a government that can be trusted. cherokeeprogressive Apr 2013 #14
Yep, quite true. The problem with governments is power and money rise to the top, crooks and RKP5637 Apr 2013 #17
"It sounds like pseudoscience, but it's a published theory." William Seger Apr 2013 #9
Yep!!! n/t RKP5637 Apr 2013 #11
Because if it's published, it's not pseudoscience Captain Stern Apr 2013 #16
Like, just because a person has a degree they can't believe in nutty crap? baldguy Apr 2013 #22
Yeah. Exactly like that. (nt) Captain Stern Apr 2013 #24
I hope not but - the Left (oddly) wins most organized shooting wars. JanMichael Apr 2013 #12
I dunno abelenkpe Apr 2013 #13
Sounds like psychohistory to me. bluedigger Apr 2013 #15
Thanks for the info and link! n/t RKP5637 Apr 2013 #18
. jazzimov Apr 2013 #19
Could be, but if so, it'll be before 2020 Populist_Prole Apr 2013 #20
Yep, that will be the turning point when those being RKP5637 Apr 2013 #21
sounds like a bullshit theory to me cali Apr 2013 #23
Other: LWolf Apr 2013 #25
Would this be like Armageddon light Progressive dog Apr 2013 #26
LOL ... I would hold off on the bunker! n/t RKP5637 Apr 2013 #28
President Clinton will have a 80-20 majority, with the extremists on both sides shunned by 2018. graham4anything Apr 2013 #27
Yep, 2016 will be the turning point. Many people I talk to are totally fed up with RKP5637 Apr 2013 #29
Good. The more the merrier. graham4anything Apr 2013 #30
May be pseudo sci or sci fiction, may not be a unified theory.. Eleanors38 Apr 2013 #31
And I think underlying all of this is the gov. has lost creditability with many of the masses, RKP5637 Apr 2013 #32
50 years is the Chiron return if one were interested in exploring the symbolism of that archetypical KittyWampus Apr 2013 #33
Thanks! I will read up on this and my quick glance on Google indicated something I will be quite RKP5637 Apr 2013 #34
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