2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised. [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)is what would happen when the trucks stopped running and the supermarkets emptied out within a couple days.
When everyone was ordered to stay at home or be shot.
When all communications, including the internet, were cut so people had no idea what was happening beyond their sight line or how their relatives and friends were doing.
If the water stopped running, and all thoughts of resistance were subjugated to the immediate need for life-sustaining water.
When the price for a bag of rice and 3 cans of vegetables was obedience and 3 hours in line.
I suspect the would-be torchers think all they'd need to do is go explain that they voted for the revolution and they'd be clapped on the shoulder and thanked for having destroyed the "establishment."
Of course, with a really efficient revolution, maybe we'd just wake up one morning and learn we had a new government, without a messy transition -- a few missing leaders, ministers, teachers, etc., in each town, some really strange news shows requiring us to turn in seditious neighbors, but really, for all who obey orders and were already pretending this is an oligarchy and not a democracy, no big change at all.