Could a Government Shutdown Spark a Revolution?

With the government shutdown going into effect today, not only is it a reminder of how the American political system endlessly fails to accomplish anything. But looking at this shutdown though a revolution lens, I start to question what exactly it takes to start a revolution.

Clearly shutting down the government is a cry for change, but where is the line draw between change and revolution? The line is already blurred when lumping the Renaissance and the French Revolution into the same "revolutionary" category. Both of these changes effected mass amounts of people with new radical ideas. Revolutions start with a need/want for change, and a new radical idea comes to fill that need.

Shutting down all the National Parks, Museums, NASA, Environmental Protection Agencies, along with sending over 1 million employees home, certainly seems radial, but without a new idea and an instigator, no revolutionary change would ever come to our government.

Maybe it’s time for a revolution in our own American government, to change the way our countries views this mess of politics. So what would it take to start a revolution in our government? First we would need a revolutionary idea whether that be a new party system, a total revamp of the congress, or just copying the European Union? Then we would also need a new instigator. A new political party? A president? Or a senator?

So maybe next time when the government shuts down for the 19th time in history, a new idea and an instigator will arise. Then under those conditions a government shutdown could be a spark for a political revolution in America.