That all hinges on them feeling too insecure in their institutional power (particularly military and police, where they have relative popularity) to manipulate the vote without consequence- likely by eroding it through continuing with the same kinds of action and harming yet more people in the meantime.
I am also pretty doubtful of the chances of whomever ends up in power next, upon being handed the machinery of state, actually makes the fundamental changes necessary to get away from the underlying causes that led us here, and honestly your wishlist doesn’t either (the results stem from the particular systems and power structures at work, if we don’t address them at their root then we haven’t done anything, and since this includes the very structures that state political power relies upon…), but those are really only secondary points.
I hope that I didn’t imply that you were advocating for that, I was trying to speak purely to the point being made without any assumptions beyond.
No worries, it’s a good discussion. I share the concern about putting all the eggs in the “vote blue and things will go back to normal” basket, because that is far from guaranteed to work or sufficient. I didn’t get the impression you were painting me in any camp, but I wanted to clarify my position to pre-empt any conclusion jumpers.
That all hinges on them feeling too insecure in their institutional power (particularly military and police, where they have relative popularity) to manipulate the vote without consequence- likely by eroding it through continuing with the same kinds of action and harming yet more people in the meantime.
I am also pretty doubtful of the chances of whomever ends up in power next, upon being handed the machinery of state, actually makes the fundamental changes necessary to get away from the underlying causes that led us here, and honestly your wishlist doesn’t either (the results stem from the particular systems and power structures at work, if we don’t address them at their root then we haven’t done anything, and since this includes the very structures that state political power relies upon…), but those are really only secondary points.
I hope that I didn’t imply that you were advocating for that, I was trying to speak purely to the point being made without any assumptions beyond.
No worries, it’s a good discussion. I share the concern about putting all the eggs in the “vote blue and things will go back to normal” basket, because that is far from guaranteed to work or sufficient. I didn’t get the impression you were painting me in any camp, but I wanted to clarify my position to pre-empt any conclusion jumpers.