Age of Disorder

[Bob Butler 54]

(09-09-2020, 04:59 PM)David Horn Wrote: I agree that violence will be limited to domestic actions, more like Chicago in '68 than what's occurred so far.  I'm hard pressed to see how this is avoided, frankly.  The PTB are so smug and self-satisfied that a humble willingness to relent to anything short of a direct threat seems unlikely in the extreme.  40 years of riding high and making all the rules tends to warp ones perspective, and this Gilded Age set new records.

In democratic countries, non violence should work most of the time. One party or the other will get the idea of listening to the people, and the other goes caput. Autocratic cultures like Russia or China? You can get awfully deaf to the will of the people.

The Soviet Union did yield to protest, but I don't feel they had the most tone deaf of leaders. They also reverted in time. You would have to get really really close to resorting to violence, convince the autocrats that you will go violent, before they are apt to listen. I cannot see clearly how they will act.