[lesuorac]

Everybody loves to quote french revolution or 2nd amendment but all these revolutions are all centrally lead (by somebody/group performing a power grab).

Whose leading the revolution against 401k theft? Is Vanguard going to invite people with 401ks to a rally in DC?

[sofixa]

The French revolution wasn't lead centrally, it was a higher classes which boiled over to grassroots explosion of public discontent that ran away from everyone, had a life of its own, and devoured its children.

Economically, little changed for the regular people. The church was ruined, and so were many high class families. Socially, a lot did (there was an expectation of humans having rights, the church was forever relegated to a secondary role and out of governance, etc).

Most social revolutions (changing the social order, so the US war of independence doesn't count) have a grassroots component that is often highjacked by educated professionals (lawyers are a bit overrepresented) for their own social and economic agenda (which, to be clear, is a net positive compared to the previous order)

[asdffdasy]

when you put it like that, it might actually works. Specially now that the people stealing the 401k will be ones shadowbanning all the angry tweets.

also: see the preemptive strike on revolutions https://gking.harvard.edu/files/gking/files/censored.pdf?mod...