Bad News for... Revolution

[diesel driver]

 

Not intirely true.

Watching the old documentaries of the days of the depression, people raised roof top chickens and gardens on the roofs of abandoned buildings. They did a grand job of it, fed themselves and the neighborhood...

Small problem with your theory.

Back during The Depression, most people were barely a generation removed from the farm.  Most KNEW how to butcher a cow, plant a crop, process and store their own food.

Today, how many urban residents have actually SEEN a cow?  Most would be hard pressed to know which end of the cow to put the feed bucket under, and which one to use the shovel.

[Ptarmigan]

The OP is actually right, despite the suck level of the economy, the US has never been farther from revolution.  What we are in is more like the decline of Rome, where the Citizens were provided bread and circuses to deflect them from worrying about how the place was run, while all the outlying sources of wealth were gutted and exploited to maintain the welfare class, until finally there wasn't enough coming in to sustain it.

We are like Rome, a once powerful empire in its days. It was a slow death. I see so much parallels. They had mindless entertainment like we have today. Romans had endless gladiatorial fights and orgies, while we have so-called reality TV shows.

[Tucker]

Yeah, what's the bad news on Rush?

Anybody know?

The DUmmies that that they have him on the ropes with their advertiser boycott.

It ain't working.

[zeitgeist]

The DUmmies that that they have him on the ropes with their advertiser boycott.

It ain't working.

That was my take too.  DUmmies are so cute when they hold their breath, tap their foot and pout.

[JohnnyReb]

I don't see a downside here.   

I see tons of organic fertilizer.....little stinky and loaded with chemicals but nature has a way of dealing with that.