>>While I don't disagree with those countries being much more primed for an uprising, you suggested I Compare with stable First World nations and a different picture may emerge.
>>I was citing 3 which are closer than the US, IMHO
You selected unstable First World countries. How about stable First World countries such as the one I cited: Switzerland?
"... 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
