If there WAS a broad mass-based left-wing revolution during a Democratic presidency...

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6. I don't think you understand what revolution is

Revolution is not against a party, it is against a state and social order. Any government in power would do what it could to crush it. If it is crushed, it is considered an uprising rather than a revolution. A movement has to succeed in dramatically alerting state and society to some extent to be considered a social revolution.

I don't see what the point of speculating about revolution is. You aren't going to will people to rise up and do your bidding from behind a computer screen. If people took some time to read some history and theory of social revolutions, they would know they are rare, extremely dangerous, bloody, and require people to risk EVERYTHING. Another point is that they are always followed by counterrevolution.

Oh, and any revolution wouldn't be about legalizing pot or the NSA. Average people care about how they are going to survive from day to day. While the bourgeoisie certainly has succeeded in steering revolutions toward their own interests, it is the people, the masses, who make the revolutions. The poor are not going to risk their lives because parts of the middle- and upper-middle class don't like a presidential speech on cable TV or Hillary Clinton was on the board of Walmart.