"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...."
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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
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Any protests that can’t be ignored is essentially mob rule
Thank god for the mob that Marched on Washington in 1963 then.
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I'm so glad we couldn't ignore this fine protest too
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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.
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Who let the austrian clown in?
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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.
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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.
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But a protest that can't be safely ignored is a choice to destroy the country, apparently
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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.
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Well yeah. Imagine we couldn't ignore a protest against democracy. What would that even mean?
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