I think everybody is initiating them, or rather that every organisation that potentially could (commies, fundies, unions) do an uprising is taking credit and helping as the rebellions erupt from frustration, starvation, unemployment and the belief that finally the time has come.

Nailed. herding all these cats into a viable political alternative to dictatorship is going to be interesting.

the long messy discussions are what slows democracy down, but the alternative seems always worse.

do not destroy what you cannot create.

that is the rule. now, how to break it correctly. we can all help, that's the beautiful thing... in reality we have no choice.

'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty