Yup. The adults gave themselves the authority to declare perpetual adult swim. And now people are realizing that they’ve spent the entire time shitting in the pool before they die.
The “revolutions” you listed were pretty violent. The Indian Independence Movement was famously bloody. Even Ghandi was murdered by conservatives.
Countless protesters were murdered in the Velvet Revolution. The protesters themselves were peaceful: I’ll give you that. But they were slaughtered for 30 years before a transition of government finally happened. Hell, it even started violently as hundrsds of thousands of Warsaw Pact troops invaded Czechoslovakia and slaughtered protesters.
Demonstrators in the Philipines were similarly murdered in ipen, violent fashion in the People Power Revolution. But, yes. The protesters remained nonviolent as entire families were erased by Marcos.
The Singing Revolution was pretty peaceful, but not without violence (see Bloody Sunday of 1991), but I would argue also that Soviet contr of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania were almost entirely by declaration rather than direct oppression. As such, the Soviets offered almost no resistance to their declarations of independence. The oppressive conservative machine just didn’t really exist there when the “revolution” happened.
I don’t think there can be truly peaceful coexistence between conservatives and normal people in the U.S. The conservatives will always seek to oppress the normal people. That is just their nature. A cure is technically possible, but it would require following through this time. I just don’t think most normal people have the stomach for that.
Serious question: Has there ever been a non-violent solution a situation this dire?
Follow-up question: Would this problem be fixable if conservatives were removed from the equation?
We need to get rid of all those old people in office. They don’t care about the future, only about control. They need to go.
Yup. The adults gave themselves the authority to declare perpetual adult swim. And now people are realizing that they’ve spent the entire time shitting in the pool before they die.
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The “revolutions” you listed were pretty violent. The Indian Independence Movement was famously bloody. Even Ghandi was murdered by conservatives.
Countless protesters were murdered in the Velvet Revolution. The protesters themselves were peaceful: I’ll give you that. But they were slaughtered for 30 years before a transition of government finally happened. Hell, it even started violently as hundrsds of thousands of Warsaw Pact troops invaded Czechoslovakia and slaughtered protesters.
Demonstrators in the Philipines were similarly murdered in ipen, violent fashion in the People Power Revolution. But, yes. The protesters remained nonviolent as entire families were erased by Marcos.
The Singing Revolution was pretty peaceful, but not without violence (see Bloody Sunday of 1991), but I would argue also that Soviet contr of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania were almost entirely by declaration rather than direct oppression. As such, the Soviets offered almost no resistance to their declarations of independence. The oppressive conservative machine just didn’t really exist there when the “revolution” happened.
I don’t think there can be truly peaceful coexistence between conservatives and normal people in the U.S. The conservatives will always seek to oppress the normal people. That is just their nature. A cure is technically possible, but it would require following through this time. I just don’t think most normal people have the stomach for that.