"Here in London we rebranded the underutilised Overground onto the Tube map. The first day usage went up by a factor of three. It cost us some pixels and ink."
"In Manchester we painted buses yellow. Cost millions."
"A good reason no doubt?"
"Th worker bee. Are historic symbol."
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.
@ZickZaggurat It’s easy to say these things once you’re on the outside.
If he was PM today he would increase spending/borrowing and give more power to state bureaucrats (as he did back then).
Taxing people who get 4% on their uninvested cash while inflation erodes the same cash at 5% a year, all while considering this cash has already been at taxed between 20-45% before it was even eligible to be put in an ISA, is crazy.
I used to respect you Rupert.
Restore have never wanted anything to do with this area. But now someone born with a silver spoon in their mouth is trying to lie about the only working class local man in the race.
I want net negative immigration.
Every year there's an unbearable heat wave for about a week, where I seriously consider dropping £600 on an AC unit, which then subsides so I don't bother. And then I repeat the same doom loop the following year.