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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"
"Surely this time the bourgeoisie will play fair and let themselves be voted out of power"
It's a rigged game that can be altered by fiat, making it literally, structurally unwinnable unless the ruling class chooses to lose, which is an absurd idea. Concrete reality, where a revolution takes place, cannot be rigged that way, even if there is still tremendous disadvantage in some respects. One deductively impossible to win against an opponent who wants to win, the other has a high chance of failure but, unlike the first, there is a real possibility of success.
Also of course the violence of the status quo is papered over, etc.