This house of cards is going to fall down, but the question is when.

I think the chance of an actual revolution is slim to none. The only way a revolution would happen in America is if some part of the establishment wanted it to happen.   Most of the "revolutionary" group has been infiltrated, there was a point when 30% percent of the America communist party was FBI informants.  A high up black panther official was an FBI informant. The list goes on. If you attend any sorta revolutionary group meeting chances are if you look around you will  be looking at 1 or more FBI agents.

But things will change, I think the system will make itself unworkable and change will just happen because it has too. Something will make it stop working, maybe oil going down the other side of the peak, maybe some massive financial crisis. Who knows. But it will happen. If we had accurate figures about the total amount of oil left on the planet, and I mean easy  to get to oil, no oil sands. Then we could get an idea of how much time we have left. But its not in their best interests to do so. 

The system wont be able to exist any more and a new one will take its place. Who knows what that may be but it will be grown out of necessity and hopefully be more response to the needs of the people.

We will go through some tough times but in the end I think we will be better off. Lets just make sure we are.