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So the solution is to rear a generation of children who believe violence, riots, revolutions, and coup-d'etat is the solution for social change? Because the big problem you are glossing over is that these changes throughout history essentially all involved violence to some degree.
Small progress over time happens through peaceful protest, canvassing, voting, and generally making your voice heard.
But you can't vote your way out of authoritarianism. You can't vote away a broken system that incentivizes those in power to keep it broken. That change has to come with grand action and all at once.
What "grand action" do you suppose is appropriate in this scenario? I seem to recall some people taking a grand action on January 6, 2021 also. What separates them from you, besides their radically different ideology?
That's not the right way.
Here in the UK they are slowly but surely banning protesting, peaceful and non peaceful. Take away peaceful protesting there only is one way. Like it or not, they don't want to hear you or your voice, they just want you to rot and die.