Which way the wind of change?

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/05/09/myanmar/index.html

I'm always kind of fascinated when I see this kind of stuff out of countries like Burma. (I say Burma because officially the governing body of the URJB (United Repuplic of Julie B) does not recognize the military junta that operates under the name Myanmar. I had a referendum on it.) At what point do they get pissed off enough as a group to overthrow their government? Where is the tipping point?

Every country must have a set point at which they boil. For the US, it's obviously pretty low. We overthrew a regime that we considered repressive, basically because we didn't heart our representation in parliament. Okay, yeah, good stuff came out of it. You know democracy and whatever. But what initially burned our forefathers' collective butts was that they didn't have enough say over how their tax dollars were spent. But for the most part, as far as despotic rulers go, King George was bit of a pussycat. Compare and contrast: King George v. Pol Pot. In that light, Georgie-boy was a sweetheart. The French had it far worse, and it took more than a decade for them to jump in on the revolution bandwagon. And they had been starving.

Granted, our founding fathers appear to be a little hot headed in the context of history (in a good way). So, what does it take for Burma, and other countries that have watched racial purification, people jailed for political speech and leaders that would rather watch you starve than jeopardize their hold? I think, at long last, the US has learned that you can't bring change to other countries. Hell, in Iraq, we threw a revolution and nobody came. So what is the impetus that instigates change in Burma? What makes them say, the chance that I may die is better than this?