This isn't hard to imagine? We'll elect someone, they will put in place new policies. Maybe they will help, maybe they won't.
Nice thing about real democracies, you don't actually need pitchforks.
> Nice thing about real democracies, you don't actually need pitchforks.
Democracy is not something inherent in any society. It’s a tool wielded by the people.
if their voices are overrun by the powerful, the pitchforks come back out.
>>>> imagine a few hundred million people getting angry within one election cycle
If that many people get angry, you can bet they're all going to be different people with different motivations. This is partly why revolutions tend to suck no matter how evil the regime was they overthrew; the US got extremely lucky with being able to postpone the post-revolution civil war for a century.