Feeling left out that the US missed the communist revolution boat way back in the early 1900s?
Don't be. The United States was just slow at getting the required crop of aristocratic know-nothings, and the modern Evil Party is hurrying to correct that horrible mishap even as we speak.
In the short term, the only visible sign of the gutting of a country to feed the insatiable appetites of the self-proclaimed aristocracy is that everyone else becomes poorer and poorer and, as services are withdrawn because the hyperrich want that money, people end up dying in the street while the royals sit down for their afternoon tea. But in the long run, the proletariat will remember that they have nothing to lose but their chains, and then their pent up rage will sweep the perfumed classes out of power.
Things may not get better after that (the Cultural Revolution and the petite revolution that the Khmer Rouge performed are a couple of examples of how an insane revolutionary leadership can make the petty despotism of the now deposed and swinging from the gallows royals seem like any other day), but the one universal truth is that the aristocracy will end up shattered and either fleeing for their lives or dead by the hands of the revolution. And, you know, nobody aside from the J. Peterman catalogue will spare even a spoonful of tears for the now abruptly exed royals.
And there's even a song that the socialist revolution can use.
(link to the Paul Krugman column via ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES)