The Last Social Revolution in the U.S.

The last social revolution was caused by the need to prevent Human extinction by nuclear weapons. It wasn't about money at all.

The present social revolution is about money and how our nation has become like it was just before the Great Stock market Crash in 1929 just before the Great Depression where 90% of the wealth in the U.S. is controlled by 1% of the people. So, unless something is done we might set off a worldwide Great Depression up to 25 times worse than the one in 1929. Because when a nation becomes this top heavy it is dangerous and tends to cause a collapse economically because there are NO checks and balances working properly to maintain balance within the system of economics.

So, understanding the past social revolution of the 1960s we can also better understand the present social revolution of 2016 and 2015.

The last social revolution caused my generation to rebel in various ways which was the biggest rebellion since the Civil war. It turned parents and children against each other and many never spoke again for 25 or 30 years or never because of it. It was very sad in some ways because of this because it then separated Grandparents from their potential grandkids a lot and the country has been different ever since.

However, it also caused everyone to begin to change in ways that allowed us all not to go extinct as a direct result.

But then the Arab Oil Embargo made money a problem here in the U.S. by increasing the price of Gas (and everything made with energy like gas and oil by 4 to 8 times. So, we watched Cars for example go from 800 dollars for a new VW Bug in 1966 to 3 to 5 times that price during the 1970s.

For example, a new 1968 Camaro I bought in 1968 was only $3500. If you want to buy the same thing now it is at least 10 times more in price. This greatly changed the way people functioned here in the U.S. from one 17 year old man being able to support easily 5 people to 1 person barely able to support himself or herself by 20 to 25 years of age. And jobs that I would have gotten by age 15 are now fought over by 30 to 50 year old and instead of only needing one job they need 3 jobs to sometimes even support themselves and rent an apartment or buy a car to drive to work.

So now, the social revolution is about economic survival of the middle and lower classes in the U.S.
And without major serious changes there could be a bloody revolution here in the U.S.

To add to the problem now technology and robotics are moving towards taking away ALL jobs of the middle and lower classes in the next 25 to 50 to 100 years. So, the social revolution is about this today.

It is about whether we as a nation will economically take care of our middle and lower classes or just subject them to abject poverty until they all starve to death.

So, it is very likely if something isn't seriously done about this that the people are going to revolt eventually in a very bloody way.

So, how do we solve this problem?

One way is Bernie Sanders way which is by creating a system more like Norway or Sweden.

However, this type of system usually doesn't work well for more than a 60 million person nation because it gets too confused over that amount of people and impossible to manage properly.

2nd, this would not allow for a healthy military like we have now so it is more likely we would be taken over militarily by either China or Russia or Both and the world would become a single dictatorship as a direct result and the U.S. would be over.

So, fortunately or unfortunately Trump's ideas (if he actually does what he says) might be the only way to solve our problems by putting up trade barriers and not letting any foreign products enter the U.S. at all. This way we might keep our middle class and not become a third world nation.

We also would be able to keep our military funded and protect the world from increasing Fundamentalist Terrorism.

So, trade barriers are the only way I can see presently to do this.

However, we still are going to be dealing with technology and robotics taking away ALL the jobs of the Middle Class and poor during the next 75 years and beyond quicker and quicker.

I don't see a way to stop this at present.

So, without a welfare state for people to have enough to eat and places to live this is just another cause for a bloody revolution not only here but also in Europe and the rest of the world.

So, any way you look at it this is going to be a very tumultuous and violent Century like the last one.


However, the way this might play out is robotic warriors from richer nations against human less well armed humans in 3rd world countries.

It also could be about the U.S. and other countries turning ground and air drones against their own people once their jobs have all been taken away by technology and robots.

So, what happens in this election is very important to the continued existence and future of our Middle Class and lower classes. The physical survival of our middle and lower classes might be tied to what happens in this election. And this will likely affect seriously what happens in all countries on earth ever after. So, the whole world has a stake in what happens in this election of whether they survive all this too.

And whatever happens here in the U.S. might be a lesson for the rest of the world in finding a way forward too.