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I wish it were that simple.
I know it's not. But Nepali were more homeless and poor than you, and still burned their government building to the ground.
Time to organize and take the fascists down.
Nepal hasn't had a real government since the King stepped down, the government they overthrew was like a year old.
We have one very deeply entrenched with every aspect of life. Our entire society is just in time... Meaning every city is basically 3 weeks from starvation at all times. There's food stores everywhere, but they're in military caches
Also, do you have any idea how big America is?
Even if everyone just went to their state capital to protest, that would be a 2-9 hour drive for the majority of the population... Before you take into account traffic. There's no other option either. You'd have to organize buses beforehand, otherwise the numbers would never get to a point our heavily over funded and militarized police couldn't supress it
Which gets back to the organizational issue... The FBI and CIA (the latter, extra illegally) break up every effort at progressive organization. They've been doing it for about a century... It's why things are so one sided here
There's not going to be a glorious revolution, the conditions for it are just not present.
There's going to be an economic (and possibly societal) collapse, and if we're very very lucky, we'll fix the structural problems with our democracy while we pick up the pieces
This is what gets me when I see posts wondering why Americans haven't marched to Washington and overthrown the government. If I lived on the coast of Portugal, Washington DC would be roughly as far away as Moscow is to there.
Somehow MAGA did it.
They attempted it. It failed.
They failed‽
Then who the fuck is prez, owns the senate, and the courts‽
They got back into power by exploiting the system as usual, not from a single event that happened 4 years prior.
I believe that is what helped lead them to take down their government; that there was more homeless and poor. There are a lot of people (maybe a majority) in this country that haven’t seen the effects enough in their own lives for them to give a shit. Enough people still have jobs, food, and a home so aren’t feeling enough pressure to act. Contentment, complacency, and apathy for others are counteractive to revolution, and we still have much of those in the US.
South Korea is the wrenth to this hypothesis, that I concur with.
That’s the thing, they are good at just keeping people poor enough, but not too poor. It’s not worth it for them to risk everything because they aren’t that poor. Yet anyway.