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To be replaced with what? You have a military backed group able to hold power and enforce true democracy or whatever that can’t be corrupted to the same ends sitting in the sidelines? If so I’m down.

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Consider reading The State and Revolution. The people run the new government as an “administration of things,” and not as career parliamentarianism. Units democratically decide things, and send delegates for higher units that decide things relating to multiple units, with instant recall elections.

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

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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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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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