re: History: French Revolution

We see a lot of symptoms, but no. The economic conditions are nowhere near dire end for the ordinary people to get involved yet. In most bloody revolutions that collapse long-standing authoritarian governments, the motivation is hunger. Histronics and peaceful protests are always a part of political discourse by the fringe and the political junkies, but regular people don’t start shooting folks or chopping off heads unless they get to the point where they see their odds of being able to feed themselves and their families are better with drastic action verses the status quo.

Under our current situation, a lot of people and businesses are struggling financially, but we have not yet near reached the hunger tipping point that results in regular, non-political people to get involved trying to topple regimes to get food.