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minus-squareresipsaloquitur@lemmy.worldBannedlinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down2·8 个月前We narrowly avoided a revolution in 2008. Donald was the popular protest vote against the status quo that made the banks whole. When even the populist demagogue fails to change the status quo and people can’t afford groceries, things change.
minus-squarenull_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·8 个月前Loads of people have been unable to afford groceries for a long time. To topple a regime you need the oligarchs to really start to hurt, so they withdraw their support. I can’t really see that happening in the foreseeable TBH.
minus-squareresipsaloquitur@lemmy.worldBannedlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·8 个月前Respectfully disagree. A majority of people in the US aren’t going hungry. Yet.
minus-squarenull_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·8 个月前Plenty of countries with lots of hungry people. The thing is, you would need a big chunk of the population to enter hardship at the same time, rather than merely being in hardship at the same time.
We narrowly avoided a revolution in 2008. Donald was the popular protest vote against the status quo that made the banks whole.
When even the populist demagogue fails to change the status quo and people can’t afford groceries, things change.
Loads of people have been unable to afford groceries for a long time.
To topple a regime you need the oligarchs to really start to hurt, so they withdraw their support.
I can’t really see that happening in the foreseeable TBH.
Respectfully disagree. A majority of people in the US aren’t going hungry. Yet.
Plenty of countries with lots of hungry people.
The thing is, you would need a big chunk of the population to enter hardship at the same time, rather than merely being in hardship at the same time.