jerryk on Nostr: In case you didn't notice, on Sunday, two momentous elections were held, in which the ...

In case you didn't notice, on Sunday, two momentous elections were held, in which the Left won big time. One in Brazil, and one around the world in Serbia. Both were facilitated by mass demonstrations of the left, and both won against entrenched right wing financial interests, and attempted vote buying by Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and company. And, both were unexpected results. The Left was expected to lose, the demonstrators were expected to lose, but, in both cases they won, very much against the odds, and the established financial interests that ferociously opposed them.

These days there is much talk of the "violence" of these mass demonstrations by the left. Actually, if by violence you mean deaths and injuries, there's rather little of that, at all. Often none, at all. A million people "rioting", and no one gets hurt? What's that all about? Actually, what these demonstrations really are is passive resistance, very much in the tradition of Mahatma Gandhi in India, and for precisely the same purpose. The purpose is to create economic disruption that can force a government to its knees, without a shot being fired, without a bomb being thrown. A million people marching can shut down a major city indefinitely, and if the authorities use force to intervene, it is really the authorities who are using violence, not the people. And, the people will understand this, too. This will turn the rest of the people against the authorities, and they will eventually be overthrown. This is why passive resistance is very effective in societies in which there are regular elections. Indeed, it can be very effective even in societies in which there aren't regular elections, it certainly helped to overthrow the Tsars in Russia.

Definitely, some people made a lot of money betting on a Lula victory in Brazil. The financial community was against him, and they all put their money on the line betting against him. Almost all anyway. Didn't work out too well for them, though, did it? They lost a lot of money, didn't they?

Currently, bettors are putting heavy odds on Marine Le Pen winning in next year's presidential elections in France. Don't count on that, my friends, don't count on it, at all! A similar situation obtains. While the financial interests are hoping and praying that the french people will favor a "law and order" -- i.e., kill and/or lock up all the protesters -- approach, the chances are the majority of the people in a democratic republic like France will not. What this really amounts to, is the rich have the right to kill and/or starve to death anyone and everyone who opposes their own financial interests, because "that's the law"! Ultimately, once most people get a chance to think about this, they tend to reject it, you see!

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