Definition of Democracy

[piercehawkeye45]

Originally Posted by ZenGum

Peaceful mass demonstrations can sometimes overthrow an entrenched government, if (1) the protest is huge and (2) the police and military lack the ruthlessness to suppress it by massacring unarmed civilians of their own country.

I don't know much about peaceful revolutions and how they exactly work and their effects but it seems that those tend to be more symbolic than anything. But in the case of a protest against a fascist America, I don't know who we would be trying to make a point too? The government would not give up their power except by revolution and no outside force would attack to save us from fascism.

I am split on whether your second point would work or not if the United States did truly become fascist because even though I know a lot of the SWAT teams will fire on innocent people, I don't know what would happen when the protests reach sizes of hundreds of thousands in multiple cities. I would really not want an 8/8/88 repetition.