"You're fooling yourself, we're living in a dictatorship! A self-perpetuating autocracy in which the working classes...."
"You're fooling yourself, we're living in a dictatorship! A self-perpetuating autocracy in which the working classes...."
No they aren't. Not all protests are good. It is essential that political disagreements don't capsize the society we live in. Any protests that can't be ignored is essentially mob rule
Any protests that can’t be ignored is essentially mob rule
Thank god for the mob that Marched on Washington in 1963 then.
I'm so glad we couldn't ignore this fine protest too
Democracy is mob rule (and therefore authoritarian) where the mob is organized by vote. Democracy is just an relatively egalitarian way to create a mob.
Who let the austrian clown in?
i think this is true for a direct but centralised democracy.
in parliamentary democracies it's different, with rulers being chosen through popularity contests. the majority of the people usually doesnt have actual controll over individual political decisions.
A protest that can be safely ignored isn’t a protest, it’s just a circlejerk where slacktivists gather to congratulate themselves about how virtuous they are.
Actual protests are disruptive, by definition.
But a protest that can't be safely ignored is a choice to destroy the country, apparently
Well, as JFK said, a nation that makes peaceful protest impossible makes violent protest inevitable.
It doesn’t have to destroy the country, but if it comes to that…you can’t say nobody warned you.
Well yeah. Imagine we couldn't ignore a protest against democracy. What would that even mean?
