This is 1848 all over again. 2023 is going to see serious revolts like the revolutions of 1848 and 1849.
If you look at the conditions that led to those revolts and the creation of the modern nation state, we are right back there.
- Revolutionary Technology changing life
- New press bring political awareness
- Rejection of values and ideas of the current leaders
- Crop Failures and food scarcity
- Economic hardship
- Unemployment
- Absolutism of current leaders
- Middle and working classes desire for reform
These Revolutions occurred all over the world during this period, they were not directly linked and differed a little from place to place, but the core causes were the same. A changing world and leaders who demanded complete control.
The Revolutionaries were largely put down or given small carrots for their efforts, but within a generation the Revolutionaries got pretty much everything they asked for.