>>Are you advocating a violent revolution?
Of course not, I'm making an observation.
>>Are they going to overthrow democracy? And do what?
Already answered. With Middle Class leadership, it will be a revolution. Otherwise a riot. Revolution as per recognized definition.
>>What if they win?
Win what? Point is that once people decide the social compact has nothing for them, they try to establish a new model that values their own attributes more. E.g. numbers and physical strength. Whether the model becomes a brief riot or a revolution depends on leadership IMHO. I doubt they'll be sipping lattes considering Marxist ideas or any of that.
>>Any revolution will have to be sustained by the power of a new idea. So far, we just have the same old emotions.
My understanding is that dissatisfaction with the status quo is enough to get things going. Once it starts, those who stormed the Bastille weren't contemplating a new order, they were storming the Bastille.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1