• hedgehog
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    1 year ago

    How do you have a successful revolution when roughly 95% of people support either Republicans or Democrats?

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      1 year ago

      They don’t, actually. The US government has a shockingly low approval rate to begin with, and it’s only getting worse over the years.

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        1 year ago

        I’m not talking about “approval rates.” I’m talking about how, in any given election, less than 5% of the vote goes to third parties.

        If third party candidates can’t get enough support to even come close to getting elected, how would we be able to get enough people organized to support a revolution? Voting takes very little effort, so I would expect the number of supporters to go down, not up.

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            1 year ago

            revolution is illegal

            Does being illegal make it somehow easier to gain support?

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              1 year ago

              No, but it means measuring support for revolution by the results of elections where only about 2/3rds of Americans even vote to begin with is silly.