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None of you are truly miserable to have nothing to lose nor are you angry enough to fix it so that no one else does either. Edmund Burke's thesis that successful revolutions arise out of the middle class and not the poor was unique to that time. Now there's no such thing as revolutions that arise out of either the middle class OR the poor. The middle class is afraid to be left worse off and the poor just devolve into anarchic bands of 'activists' or 'freedom movements' which are the cover stories for criminal gangs and local tyrants. Mostly it all grinds along slowly toward dingier and cruddier states that work a little less well each year. But the upside for leftists is that everyone everywhere falls and fails a bit at the same rate. The long run outcome is that the west will become a semi functional lower class collection of states that resemble east Germany in the 80's more than anything else. Not really worth living in but not really worth saving either, unless someone handed it to them. In short, everyone will be the same. Everyplace will be the same. More like Cairo or Luanda than Paris. All you have to do is wait and do nothing and real world socialism will come to you with relatively little effort.
