does anyone think there could be a revolution in this lifetime

No. Not in Britain anyway.

This is a country that has had quite large upheavals over the centuries including the Dissolution and the Civil War, but generally avoids violent, destructive ones as likely to bring destruction as construction.

Reform yes, and that has happened from time to time but in relatively gentle steps. Not revolution.

I think it will be an orderly change where we get rid of the puppet masters. Some people are on the edge of discovering how to generate free energy from the air. If we need to use force to prevent energy companies from preventing the release of this stuff we should do so.

Supposedly there is an international military alliance to be the "muscle" need to take down the corrupt people in government and the corrupt people above government that use vast wealth to control corrupt officials. Yes elections can change the guard with elected office, but those above that level, elections won't solve anything. But for force to be used in an orderly fashion instead of mobs of armed people, this is where the military comes into play to limit the damage.

The Federal Reserve and central banks will be done away with and governments will directly print money. In the US a few years ago the Federal Reserve was placed under the control of the treasury, but a little later the job of doing away with the Federal Reserve will be complete.

In health, it is come out that various frequencies can heal people, and they are working on MRI like machines that do this in souped up way even compared to just listening to music tuned to these frequencies (432hz and 528hz are 2 examples of healing frequencies). When this technology is released drug companies and many medical device and equipment companies will be disrupted. Most regular medicine will be trauma and emergency medicine, but the frequency healing will be for long term health and taking care of chronic diseases (mixed with a better lifestyle.)

I think things will transition at a pace for people who work in disrupted industries will either work in their current industries but doing new tasks based on new technologies, or they will be able to find other meaningful jobs. As for those in charge of these companies that want to hang on at all costs and risk losing everything if they pout and resist the changes, I won't feel so sorry for them if they lose everything. The choice is to adapt or lose.

It is interesting how existing laws and executive orders in the US make legal for the military to engage in continuity of government operations. Even the civilian government systemically violating the Constitution and it not being fixed in the Courts is enough of a legal cause to activate the US Military for this, but so many other things on in addition to this is probably going on to legally activate them.

I think most countries could do a lot worse if they just cut the baby boomers loose from political office.

These people are now in or approaching their 80's and want to ensure nothing changes.
Same old economic decisions leading to the same old political & economic messes that benefit nobody but themselves.

Yes it will likely happen

Hopefully the system can change itself, using customary mechanisms.

For example, if people dislike some part of the US Constitution, it can always be amended.

I hope there is, but at the same time the growing pains that follow a revolution are not something I look forward to.

In my country the resentment is not only from the traditionally disenfranchised, but from those who now [b]think[/b] they’re disenfranchised simply because they’re no longer on top, which makes things particularly confusing. 😳

I'll keep the dollar, the revolutionaries can keep the change.

Lets hope not. 600,000 Americans died in the last attempted revolution in the 1860's...

Not sure unless something pops full of Surprises

There won’t be

I think that the deluded Trump cultists in my country are about to try to start one. I also think they're going to fuck around and find out.