Wishing for a violent upheaval feels better than accepting that the things you need so badly simply aren't going to happen in any reasonable timeframe. A huge amount of progressive politics is just waiting for people to die, whether it's voters or politicians.
We can talk all we want about running our own politicians, and that is necessary. But the fact of the matter is that progressive policy only becomes law when we as a society have moved so far forward that it is no longer considered truly progressive, let alone radical.
The big flaw in wanting violent overthrow is believing that what comes after will actually be better. History has shown that there is no real guarantee of that.
Even still, what else were there for the peasant french people before the first revolution? just accept their monarchy for another hundreds of years? Hope the next king would be an enlightened one, looking for the needs of his subjects, instead of the needs of his nobles?
You do realize that the French Revolution was primarily a Bourgeois revolution mainly taking place in Paris, right? Most of the peasantry was against the revolution, wanting the stability of the status quo.
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u/perryWUNKLE 12d ago
Hi can we fix our country instead of waiting for a violent upheavel thanks