Be careful what you hope for, because the results may not be what you wanted.

Just like a Gaffe is when a politician accidentally tells the truth, a manifesto is when a Progressive calls for revolution. The problem is that America is not an ideal location for Piven’s revolt. It is a center right country which is becoming more conservative in response to Obama’s Leftist actions. George Washington University’s Battleground Poll says that 60% of Americans are conservative or very conservative. This has always been so, but a political realignment is taking place forcing people out of traditional parties which no longer serve them.

Piven expects and does not have a mass movement. She is more likely to frighten the Conservatives into a reaction. The Conservatives are very busy, now, trying to survive the Recession which the Progressives of both parties caused. They are not and don’t want to be political.

If Piven gets her revolt, then a reaction will land on her activists with both feet. Liberals and Leftists comprise less that a quarter of the population and only a small portion of them will become activists. This is enough to cause great havoc, but is not enough to win. She needs the moderates and the independents to become active on her side and this may not happen. I’m guessing that they are turned off by politics; Obama used up all of their goodwill in 2008.

A Conservative congress is unlikely to believe that appeasement will bring peace. They know that it didn’t work for Chamberlain. An authoritarian reaction from Obama will not work either.

The revolution that Piven wants could be co-opted to turn America back into a constitutionally limited Republic. It depends on what the electorate wants — more government or less.