Fighting back is always good, no matter the optics.
Starting the fight is where it gets complicated. But we are long past that. They’ve already started the fight by throwing innocent people, including children, into dungeons. By beating non-violent protestors. By shooting them even with less-lethal munitions. By escalating the use of force when the situation was already dying down just to stoke the flames again.
The important bit is how you fight back. Anyone can stick a rag in a bottle of vodka and light it on fire, but that doesn’t really solve anything. It creates opportunities, but unless we have some kind of plan already in place for how to create a new democracy from the ashes of the old rotten one, some Neo-Napoleon will be happy to step in and create an autocracy in its place.
The power is in organization and understanding, not the tip of a bayonet.
Fighting back is always good, no matter the optics.
Starting the fight is where it gets complicated. But we are long past that. They’ve already started the fight by throwing innocent people, including children, into dungeons. By beating non-violent protestors. By shooting them even with less-lethal munitions. By escalating the use of force when the situation was already dying down just to stoke the flames again.
The important bit is how you fight back. Anyone can stick a rag in a bottle of vodka and light it on fire, but that doesn’t really solve anything. It creates opportunities, but unless we have some kind of plan already in place for how to create a new democracy from the ashes of the old rotten one, some Neo-Napoleon will be happy to step in and create an autocracy in its place.
The power is in organization and understanding, not the tip of a bayonet.
History only favors the victor no matter how it started.