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> And if you're American, then it would be doubly great because we haven't seen any political revolutions in America since its founding (though if you're Americ
by logn 13y ago
> And if you're American, then it would be doubly great because we haven't seen any political revolutions in America since its founding (though if you're American you probably won't, because Americans like complaining about their government and alienating themselves from it, but they tend to do very little to improve it; at the end of the day, they're just too docile).
Some notable events in American history:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibition_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibition_in_the_United_Stat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_history_of_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_history_of_the_United_St...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_rights_movement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_rights_movement
- pron 13y agoI didn't say "no notable events". I said no political revolutions (although the civil war almost counts).
- adventured 13y agoIf the US Civil War doesn't qualify as a political revolution, then I would argue nothing possibly could. It started as a political argument in fact. It was about how to govern, and what rights the states possessed as part of the United States. Every aspect of the Civil War and its outcomes were political in nature. It was absolutely a political revolution first and foremost. The war settled the political dispute.