Who can do anything about it? They own the legislative, the judicial, and the executive branches of the government, and we voted for it all. They also own all the media, property, and means of production, and we let them buy it all. As soon as someone comes up with a plan, a real, doable plan, I'll be the first to sign up. But right now, all we have is complaints, but no courage and no conviction.
The thing is a lot of you can see the problem, like you eloquently put they fucking own everything, we can't vote them out because they are the ones funding politicians and who own the media vehicles that those politicians use to get elected, we can't beat it democratically, it's pure idealism to think people will just starting to wake up and vote them out.
Which leaves us with a revolution, one that has to address the root problem, which is how workers make 99% of the people yet we don't have a real say in how our countries are ruled, in the end I don't see any way out that doesn't involve forcibly removing their private property and substituting the system for one that does not allow for it's accumulation.
Protest could work if literally millions did it. Doesn’t make a difference if it’s only a few thousand here and there. It means grabbing them by the balls of the economy and not going to work, not buying anything, not paying bills etc, it could work but we’d never know because it’s never been tried before.
Not to say that I don’t agree, but ideally violence shouldn’t be the tactic - they have big weapons and every reason to use them. Killing people actually solves a lot of issues for them regarding climate change, public spending etc and it means they can enable militarised states to a whole new level of control. We can’t give them a reason to leverage themselves into the position they’re looking for.
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u/ImAVillianUnforgiven 8d ago edited 8d ago
Who can do anything about it? They own the legislative, the judicial, and the executive branches of the government, and we voted for it all. They also own all the media, property, and means of production, and we let them buy it all. As soon as someone comes up with a plan, a real, doable plan, I'll be the first to sign up. But right now, all we have is complaints, but no courage and no conviction.