People have to vote that's the only way we will get change.
100,000 people on the governor's doorstep ready to riot will get bipartisan legislation instilled immediately. The civil rights movement was obviously non violent. However, the unrest, economic effects, and disruption FORCED LBJ, a Democrat who really didn't want it to happen, signing that legislation.
Voting in the US is a joke. No minority opinion survives in politics ever. If you go against the grain, you get forced out by other people.
It doesn't always take riots for great changes, maybe sometimes. Voting different leaders in, over time, that can change things.
That doesn't sound like democracy.
the u.s. is not exactly a democracy tho, because it is so hard for a third party to be viable it's practically illegal. fptp doesn't do that - see canada, india, the u.k. it's a deliberate choice by the powerful to prevent them from having to listen to the weak - which is exactly the point of democracy.
You don’t put quarantines to a vote, you quarantine.
Democracies are good because you need a lot of people’s buy-off to do something and in the general case, that’s a good thing. In the extreme case, it’s too slow.
100,000 people are irrelevant, when the governor has machine guns.
And if the people bring guns to the fight, then the governor will bring out the bigger guns: attack helicopters, fighter planes, bombs, etc.
Gun ownership is to just make the individual feel better about himself. But, it doesn’t do anything to change the mind of the leadership.