It is nice to see another country standing up to their government

[Horse with no Name]

However, there is one concern that I have.

What if this incident empowers the teabaggers to go to Washington?

They can empower their army of Jethro's to do anything--just have to tell rush, inc et al to broadcast the revolution.

At that point--would we have a civil war when the two sides collide or what exactly would happen?

I have no illusion that our internet and media would be cut off (except for chosen sites).

[jody]

1. Is it "country standing up to their government" or people standing up to someone else's govt? nt

[Horse with no Name]

3. Touche. You are correct. n/t

[jody]

4. It's events like this that cause one to read or reread "For Whom the Bell Tolls" and the words,

"No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee." from John Donne's Meditation.

[JoePhilly]

2. Never happen ... the best they can muster is the occassional Timothy McVea.

The rest of their screaming is bluster and idle ranting.

[MineralMan]

5. Have you ever seen a teabagger rally?

The attendees are not people who would be involved in any revolution. You're overestimating their willingness to do anything other than hold up misspelled signs and yell stupid slogans.

If any from that edge of American politics were to do anything, it would be done by individuals from hiding. That could happen, but that does not constitute any sort of mass uprising.

The other edge of American politics has pretty much the same power to bring out crowds of people willing to put their lives on the line.

There is no impending revolutionary activity on the horizon here.

[jody]

6. Agree "no impending revolutionary activity" but does that depend upon a dam provided by a large

middle class that protects the plutocrats who control both major parties from extreme firebrands from the fringe of politics?

What will happen if the middle class bulwark against revolutionary activity becomes so small that it no longer protects corporatist?

[frazzled]

7. The point I was going to make .... but just imagine

I was going to suggest how we would be alarmed if the rest of the world had reacted to footage of the spate of Tea Party rallies and town hall "uprisings" (with guns!) a while back, and started calling for the President of the United States to step down. If they demanded that their governments take a strong stance in support of the "people" of America.

The same could be said of footage from Chicago in 1968. Or Watts a few years earlier.

Face it, DUers: we have next to no context in which to frame these protests. We know nothing, even after all the days of Al Jazeera footage. Five days ago you knew zero about Egyptian politics and cared about it even less. Not one day's thought was directed at "the Egyptian people." Use your noggins and dial it back a notch.

[jody]

10. How dare you raise such thought provoking questions when it's time for calm deliberations. nt

[MoonRiver]

8. What's horrifying

is that we've been saying these things for 12 years now. The crazies just keep getting crazier. Who would have believed a Sara mama grizzly Palin would ever have become even slightly popular! We're now the USofInsanity.

[Swede]

9. 50% of Egypt's population is under 21.

80% of the teabaggers need astronaut diapers.