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[–] GraniteM 1 points 1 year ago

My take is that if I went out in the public square tomorrow and they were setting up head removal devices and lining up landlords and student loan recovery agents and fossil fuel executives on the scaffold, I would shake my head and say "You know, I wanted to do this with progressive tax policy and UBI, but you broke democracy, so here we are..."

Democracy and peaceful protest aren't just nice things that we do for fun. They're what prevent the streets from running red when enough people get angry enough to do something. They're MUCH BETTER than violent revolution, for all parties involved. Any member of a ruling class that thinks they can prevent change when the time for change has come will find themselves in very bad trouble, sooner or later.