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This seems extremely naive to me. I'm not saying there's nothing there, but it seems to exist outside of the harsher aspects of reality.
e.g. Russia turned socialist, but look at it now, and China too, but look at it now, and even the USA was turning toward socialist tendencies, but look at it now. The Power of the People only works if people will expend effort, but since people are lazy (most) and greedy (even moar-er), the wolves will run the henhouse and turn the people into slaves. We should rise up... but we'd rather take a nap.
Man, I desperately hope that I'm wrong. And I freely admit that my vision is clouded by the storm of shit that surrounds me. But even so, what good does thinking in such terms do? Either the conservatives and therefore Project 2025 fascism is going to win this next election, or else we wait 2 years until the midterm elections and see how that goes, then try the presidency all over again two more years after that. This Russian Roulette goes on and on... and on and on... and on and on... and on and on... and... well, until either they win or someone gets tired of it and takes democracy away on the other side as well. It does no good to think 100 years ahead, when we are about to lose our democracy in 2 months to 4 years from today.