Food, gas, and housing are skyrocketing. Anyone who made 32k a year prepandemic are making the same under handouts in blue states. Mass inflation, mass illegal immigration, mass prosecutions of political opposition. This is Stalin levels of infrastructure manipulation. At what point is society going to break? Is this internal crisis that started under Obama intentional to pass over hegemony to China as it continues to buy world organizations? How long until food lines?
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Yeah, when plebs have enough, things just collapse on themselves, no civil war required because there's nothing to war over.
It's still possible for new elites to rise to challenge the old, as soon as there's a vacuum.
The new elites don't have to have enough power today to challenge the current structure. They require enough potential power and the vision to see a new structure and their place in it.
Take the American Revolution as an example. It was not minor lords or high nobility overthrowing a king, but landowners who recognized that as long as the new system recognized pre-existing property rights, they would automatically fall at the top of the hierarchy.
Of course the tech giants won't be the new elite in a revolution - what they possess, they do not control. It lives on servers controlled by others, and it can be bent to the will of whoever takes possession of a few acres of land here or there, thousands of miles away. Simply by participating, they make their current power, an absurd accumulation of fiat currency, useless.
If you are willing to consider the American Civil War the second Revolution, you see the owners of land in the South declaring war on the owners of businesses - physical businesses, ironworks, factories, tangible holdings - in the North. They were the old order, rebelling against the new.
A Third American Revolution, if it were to happen today, could only really be led by entrepreneurs, creators of businesses offering goods and services still under their control, who see increased power in profits in a system with less direct government control (or perhaps more government control, if administered by a government they control). Everyone else lacks the power or is too invested in perpetuating the current managed decline into despotic hereditary oligarchy.