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Board Politics & Society
Re: Open discussion so anyone may participate if they have a dissent
by
franky1
on 28/07/2025, 12:37:22 UTC
revolt/protest is not the way to create change, because a government would simply employ its police to squash the rioters.. leading to civil war, not peaceful government change

what would need to happen is the police themselves go on strike and not aid the government, and then the people petition the government and invoke a new election

protests have never singularly/directly caused change. if you dig into history there has always been an underlying petition process, but media will only promote/publish the visuals of protests

this is because governments dont want to advertise the legal recourse of government change, they instead want people to waste time and create problems amongst themselves to make it look like the people are the dumb/uninformed so that the government can use those visuals as the reason to ignore peoples voices

.. take the american 'boston tea party'
with all of the visual drama of protests, throwing boxes of tea into the water and civil war.. what actually changed things in the end was an official petition

same with the suffragettes movement, it was not the chaining of women to fence posts that caused change, but a petition filed

however media will only talk about the visuals of protests to ensure the real route to government change is not popularised, to avoid frequent changes