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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"
Agreed. Frankly people adjust to things really quickly, things that they swear they would die to prevent. But already, today, they routinely read about bullshit that they don’t like, and they don’t lift a finger. Turns out that abstractions are not that motivating. But one or two missed meals is all it takes to motivate someone to act.
There is no need to build total consensus before a revolution
Also, you don't need to become a reflection of the thing you are fighting. You just need to understand how it is composed, and erode or detach that composition.
An "opposition-controlled media environment" is easy to imagine answers around but takes a lot of effort in practice. "Mega-wealthy donors" is a problem with an even simpler and much easier fix which is