Causes of revolts

People revolt because they are unhappy with their social and economic situation and feel that the existing government has no interest in responding to their legitimate complaints and reasonable requests for reform. Once they begin to feel helpless under a particular regime, they realize that the only way to redress their complaints is to eliminate the existing government and replace it with one that will respond. That means revolution.

This is why the Declaration of Independence stated that governments are instituted to secure the rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness and that whenever governments become destructive of those ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish that government and institute a new one that shall seem more likely to serve that purpose.