Steven Hale
1 min readAug 17, 2020

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I engaged in several protests, marches, sit-ins / occupations in the 1960's, and I know people who were much more involved than I was. The struggle took a whole lot more work and planning than what you advise here. Showing up at a representative's house with a list of demands, or engaging in a general strike as a course of action is like calling your local Wal-Mart and asking to speak to the manager when the Windows 10 on the computer you bought there keeps crashing.

What you are advocating will lead to a root-level disempowerment and disenchantment. But I'll grant you this: the revolution you describe here will probably not lead to violence because the people you're thumbing your nose at will be laughing too hard to respond with a show of force.

Mind you, I'm not promoting a "throw it against the wall and if it doesn't stick, set the house on fire" alternative either.

Meaningful change will require (and always has required) thought and planning and ego-lessness in order to achieve long-term goals. I don't know enough to say what steps should be taken, but I'm not going to make a laundry list of wishful thinking and call it a revolution either.

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Steven Hale
Steven Hale

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