First you talk. Then you vote. Then you use the legal system. And if things are still broken, you use violence.
I’m in the US so I can’t speak for the UK specifically, but it does feel like the rise of fascism and consolidation of power into fewer and fewer people is a real problem that won’t be fixed by asking nicely.
Things aren’t getting worse in the UK, they’re just staying exactly the same as they’ve always been.
There are two parties and they’re both basically identical to each other and they just keep swapping every decade or so. The Conservatives crash the economy, mostly due to piss-pour economic handling and welfare cuts, eventually everyone gets irritated with them and boots them out. Labour proceeds to blame the conservatives for the economic mess for the next 10 years, fail to really achieve anything of any significance due to the inevitable infighting (they’ve already started), and eventually lose power to the conservatives. Then the entire story mess repeats itself.
You get five or six rounds of this and then all the current lot die and you replace them with a new bunch of idiots.
Seriously this crap goes all the way back to the 1930s. We never get a break.
Thats why guillotines exist.
There’s a few steps between begging and guillotines.
But yes, politics exists on a spectrum.
Traditionally it’s
First you talk. Then you vote. Then you use the legal system. And if things are still broken, you use violence.
I’m in the US so I can’t speak for the UK specifically, but it does feel like the rise of fascism and consolidation of power into fewer and fewer people is a real problem that won’t be fixed by asking nicely.
Things aren’t getting worse in the UK, they’re just staying exactly the same as they’ve always been.
There are two parties and they’re both basically identical to each other and they just keep swapping every decade or so. The Conservatives crash the economy, mostly due to piss-pour economic handling and welfare cuts, eventually everyone gets irritated with them and boots them out. Labour proceeds to blame the conservatives for the economic mess for the next 10 years, fail to really achieve anything of any significance due to the inevitable infighting (they’ve already started), and eventually lose power to the conservatives. Then the entire story mess repeats itself.
You get five or six rounds of this and then all the current lot die and you replace them with a new bunch of idiots.
Seriously this crap goes all the way back to the 1930s. We never get a break.
Things are getting worse in the UK in terms of wealth inequality, living standards, civil rights and democratic freedom.
Sadly, most unhappy people still think that laws must be respected, and guillotining has fallen out of popularity with them quite recently.