Regarding the last sentence, I'd nitpick that there are many examples of state powers holding up even though people were really really fed up and ready for freedom. Take Iran last year, peasant rebellions through the feudal times, some Soviet rebellions that were successfully crushed.
Regarding the last sentence, I'd nitpick that there are many examples of state powers holding up even though people were really really fed up and ready for freedom. Take Iran last year, peasant rebellions through the feudal times, some Soviet rebellions that were successfully crushed.
Yes, but once the executive branch has become paralyzed (because either the leader stops giving orders to coerce dissenters, or the troops stop following such orders), crushing an aroused populace is no longer an option. The rest of the ruling class can't save the system.
As President Milei said at the start of his campaign, "I did not come here to guide lambs, I came here to awaken lions!" In this interview he gave a passionate explanation of what lies behind that stirring line, using the metaphor that the awakening of the people has the dynamics of an exponential function reaching a turning point that the politicians and privileged beneficiaries of the state won't be able to stop:
Regarding the last sentence, I'd nitpick that there are many examples of state powers holding up even though people were really really fed up and ready for freedom. Take Iran last year, peasant rebellions through the feudal times, some Soviet rebellions that were successfully crushed.
Yes, but once the executive branch has become paralyzed (because either the leader stops giving orders to coerce dissenters, or the troops stop following such orders), crushing an aroused populace is no longer an option. The rest of the ruling class can't save the system.
As President Milei said at the start of his campaign, "I did not come here to guide lambs, I came here to awaken lions!" In this interview he gave a passionate explanation of what lies behind that stirring line, using the metaphor that the awakening of the people has the dynamics of an exponential function reaching a turning point that the politicians and privileged beneficiaries of the state won't be able to stop:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ar4N99qfubE