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DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican - What if it is the "waking up" which produces the counter-elite?
Even the elite themselves love to parade the 3.5% statistic, that it takes a tiny engaged minority to create conditions for the counter-elite to prevail in a successful color revolution.
Look at how far we've come in just one-and-half years. NGOs went from being obscure to being discussed on Fox News daily.
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Christian Heiens @ChristianHeiens
History absolutely agrees with me. Show me a single revolution, revolt, or riot that has ever succeeded without elite backing.
If your political strategy is to wait for "the people" to "wake up", take power, and overthrow the current regime, you are wasting your time. Waiting for the people to overthrow a regime on their own is like waiting for Godot.
Political change does not come from waking people up, which is why accelerationists find themselves always accelerating without ever reaching their stated destination.
Here's how things actually work.
Elites rule a society and construct social, legal, and moral systems to cement their rule. Counter-elites emerge in opposition to the ruling class for a variety of factors (elite overproduction, theological disagreements, elite mismanagement or incompetency, sheer will to power, etc).
They either get co-opted by the existing order and incorporated into it, try to infiltrate the regime and change it into something else after hijacking its institutions, or instigate and coordinate a revolution to topple it.
But regardless of the method through which a counter-elite attempts to displace an existing one, there has only been one political order to ever exist, and that is oligarchy. The question is never whether elites will be in charge at the end of the day, it's who makes up the ruling class, and to what ends do they rule?
Any political movement that does not understand this iron law and act accordingly is doomed to failure.
Which is why every single populist protest against the existing Progressive regime has either been systematically destroyed or has ended up becoming a fail-safe valve to blow off steam that would otherwise be used to churn the turbine of elite circulation, which is the thing that Progressives truly fear more than anything else.
These people do not fear riots in the streets. Those riots are either organized by themselves to justify taking further action to morally justify their rule, or they're disorganized rabble who can be easily crushed with an iron fist.
What they fear is a counter-elite emerging who might USE public resentment against Progressives to overthrow Progressivism itself.