VIDEO: "Why America Will Have Its French Revolution"

Another video from Whatifalthist on the coming crises. This one focuses on his prediction that the U.S. will have social upheaval similar to the French Revolution, noting some of the similarities between the U.S. today and pre-Revolutionary France--in particular, the wealth disparity, incompetence of the elites, and the elites' disdain for commoners. He's not saying it will be exactly like the French Revolution, but that it will be of the same type: a popular revolution against an entrenched elite.

    Whether his hypothesis is correct or not, the elites seem to be acting that way. While I (and others) focus on the censorship and social controls as a method of silencing conservatives in favor of the Leftists, I think it is somewhat of a red herring. What the elites really fear is a revolution--a peasant uprising, if you will, because they certainly consider us the same way that the despots of the past viewed peasants, serfs, and slaves. That is why we are seeing a simultaneous rise of hedonistic "bread and circuses" on one hand, and a powerful police state on the other. They are both meant to pacify the public. And in the middle are various crises meant to distract us from how everything is in decline or justify the decline as being for our own good (see, e.g., "Would an occasional blackout help solve climate change?" at the LA Times). The elites hope that the public will just shut up, drink their Bud Light, and play on their smartphones and video games. 

    The video mentions at one point what danger the elites are in because they live in cities which will be the focus of violence. But if you look at the truly wealthy, they are buying up bolt holes in remote locations, or large tracks of farm land or ranches. They don't plan on being in the cities. If they can't prevent the revolution, they want to at least be in a position of becoming the feudal lords that rule afterward. 

VIDOE: "Why America will Have its French Revolution"--Whatifalthist (42 min.)