It may only take 3.5% of the population to topple a dictator – with civil resistance | Erica Chenoweth
fallowseed @ fallowseed @lemmy.world Posts 2Comments 277Joined 6 mo. ago
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the problem with rhetoric like this- it forgets that they (tyrants/dictators) continue to find power.. you set yourself up for even greater despondancy when you start to believe: IT SHOULD BE SO EASY, but it just isn't.
mind you, 3.5 percent of a population is no small feat-- but another message you can falsely intuit in the vapors of this claim: oh well, no big deal then, we can afford to wait until things start to REALLY get bad...
real political change is a long hard road and this sentiment gives people an out- its not a stretch to imagin someone reading this and coming to the conclusion that they can afford to sit on the sideline and let the magic 3.5 percent come and save them...