I can't really be bothered to wade into the latest Russell Brand controversy. But I will say this: revolutions occur when there is a state of desperation in a nation. For any kind of successful revolution that isn't just a military coup, you need a very large mass of genuinely hungry and underemployed young men on the streets threatening violence or at the very least intolerable civil disobedience. And that isn't the case in Britain and isn't about to be. We're very well fed as a nation in relative terms, and yes, I am aware of the rise of food banks in the last couple of years, and yes, it's a disgrace, but no, food shortage is not of a scale to fuel armed rebellion and would be swiftly addressed by elites if it even approached that level.
Until such time as the revolution becomes remotely feasible and the government is ready to be seized on behalf of the masses, we live in the democracy we have. And that includes the duty to engage and to vote. This is not your decision to make, I'm afraid. You run the country, however difficult and corrupt and frustrating it is, and that was decided when the Reform Act was passed. The alternative is to abandon the country to people who are content with the corruption and sit around fantasising about their demise in an impossible revolution. It's not going to happen in a OECD country that can feed and heat the vast majority of its populace and provide them with huge amounts of distracting, comforting entertainment. So grow up and get back to doing something useful.
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