Breitbart to liberals: Bring it on. We have all the guns and the military has our back. (YouTube)

[slim 1,530]

I imagine that is your wet dream. Scary that you think of such a scenario.

That is my nightmare.

And if you haven't thought about it... well, good luck.

[mawilson 2,133]

If you look at the real cause of the revolution, losing wealth based on currency devaluation, it's not that far-fetched that we'll have another.

Most poor and middle-class Americans have no (liquid financial) wealth that needs protecting. Asset prices usually keep up with inflation.

How many people do you know who keep their savings under the mattress and not invested in some sort of inflation hedge?

[slim 1,530]

Most poor and middle-class Americans have no (liquid financial) wealth that needs protecting. Asset prices usually keep up with inflation.

Yes, but once their check-to-check living is interrupted by not being able to pay for things they need - like food - they'll be more apt to take action. They'll have to, actually.

How many people do you know who keep their savings under the mattress and not invested in some sort of inflation hedge?

Savings? What savings?

[Dan and Judy 614]

How many people do you know who keep their savings under the mattress and not invested in some sort of inflation hedge?

Anyone investing in shrubbery is going out on a limb. I don't care how fast it grows.

[scandal 951]

Anyone investing in shrubbery is going out on a limb. I don't care how fast it grows.

You said shrubbery. It was inevitable.

[scandal 951]

I often wonder how long it'll be until arms interrupt the political discourse in our country.

It happens regularly, and despite that the Republic and the Constitution have endured.

We've had anarchists (one, Leon Czolgosz, assassinated President McKinley), we've had Black Panthers and the Weather Underground, we've had the Michigan Militia, Timothy McVeigh, Ruby Ridge, Ted Kaczynski the Unabomber, and the 2001 Anthrax attacks. All of these, and more, can be thought of as domestic political violence and limited forms of armed insurrection against the government and its institutions. Americans by and large have disdained the call to arms by these terror outlaws and have stuck to the political process to settle their differences. The one notable exception in the country's history, of course, was the Civil War.

[Dan and Judy 614]

You said shrubbery. It was inevitable.

nneeeeee!

[Dan and Judy 614]

If you look at the real cause of the revolution, losing wealth based on currency devaluation, it's not that far-fetched that we'll have another. People in this country are going to do what they can to protect their wealth and if government aims to take it away from them, they'll rebel.

The vast majority of us are happy sitting at McDonalds inside Wal-Mart blogging away on our free Wi-Fi so we don't care. The average standard of living is such that we don't need to rebel. As soon as that changes - and it could in the very near future - we'll see a repeat of what we saw back then. The huge difference we'll see today though is we're not organized the way they were. Even the wealthy are independent.

Is today's "teaparty" not organized? or is there someone else that would be more likely to rebel?

[scandal 951]

If you look at the real cause of the revolution, losing wealth based on currency devaluation,

Eh? Come again? Cite, perhaps?

The currency devaluation, as expressed in the infamous "not worth a Continental [dollar]", came about AFTER the Revolution, when the money circulated by the provisional Continental Congress proved worthless.

Prior to the Revolution the money in circulation was minted and distributed by the various colonies in limited amounts although the most common circulated specie were foreign currencies - Spanish and Portuguese dollars, dubloons in particular. Those "hard" currencies did not suffer any devaluation problems during colonial times.

This was not the "real cause of the revolution", by any means.

[slim 1,530]

It happens regularly, and despite that the Republic and the Constitution have endured.

We've had...

But society wasn't dependent on the things it's dependent on today. What if, after one of those attacks, the power went off and stayed off? What if the food trucks stopped coming?

What if law enforcement and the military started deserting in large numbers?

What would the "average" American do?

Is today's "teaparty" not organized? or is there someone else that would be more likely to rebel?

The rebellion, like last time, will start at the top.

Eh? Come again? Cite, perhaps?

Make it rain

Read the part about Colonial Currency. If the Crown and the Colonies would've never had money problems in the first place, we probably would still be talking funny.

Money and taxes. Fiat currency. Debts and credit.

Not much has changed in that aspect. Which leads me to believe we could be headed down the same path again once the average "colonial" decides he's better off without the old system.