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It's wild how many people seem to think that winning a revolution would somehow be easier than winning an election.
This is what I'm saying!! People keep being like "we can't possibly solve things through voting! That would involve massive organizing, getting everyone on the same page, making compromises and settling for less than perfection, and it would be subject to the influence of mega-wealthy donors and an opposition-controlled media environment! We just have to have a revolution so we don't have to deal with any of those things!"
And it's like. I'd be less annoyed about what are obviously people who are hurt and frustrated lashing out if they didn't act like I was a fucking fascist for saying "I don't think massive amounts of death and violence will help this situation, actually"
I hate, hate, hate that not only will we have to have a revolution, but that we will also have to drag people like this with us, kicking and screaming
Some of them can be dragged, but if 1917 is any indication, most will be snitching and forming watered-down "socialist" parties, intended for absorption by the democrats, pretty much until they physically can't.