Political Memes

I don’t think that’s the case, and lumping “western democracies” all into one pile is a mistake. There’s huge variety in how they’re run, from bad to good. Nobody thinks they’re gong to be a billionaire…Unless a big chunk of the population literally has severe mental illness consisting of delusions of grandeur, anyway.

What we do have is a population held by the balls. All of our security is tied to our jobs, and we’re constantly, constantly reminded that our “self reliance” is tied to our worth at the workplace, the social safety net is worthless and those on it constantly mocked and harassed. Lose your job and you lose everything.

Go to a protest and get arrested, miss work? Maybe you get fired. Go to a protest and get maimed or even killed, nothing at all happens to the LEO that does it. Maybe you’re fired or dead. Your family is now missing someone while the press drags your name through the mud. None of the protests have effected change, we’re still headed towards fascism.

So until a protest gets big and bad enough, nothing will happen because we still have everything to risk and nothing to gain. A big bad protest likely means people will die, that’s likely the only way to depose this regime.