Skallagrim
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The people currently in power can certainly be cast out of power. But things are escalating as we speak, and will continue to do so. Already, the establishment and the populists hate each other. Compromise no longer exists. The elite does not intend to relinquish power. They are fat weaklings, but they do govern the institutions, and there is still power there....why?
These people, first and foremost, are morons. They've got where they've got because the right of yesteryear fell asleep at the wheel, not through tactical brilliance. And decades of power have left them fat and easily frightened.
Defeating them is no easy task but it is more doable than some think, I reckon.
This means civil war. Not just in one country, but across the board. Since animosity is increasing more and more (to put it very mildly), this will be a war to the knife. By the end, the establishment will resort to terrible means to stave off their own removal. And by the time that removal comes, their enemies/victims will be ready to exact brutal vengeance.
Which, in turn, carries the implication that whoever forces the current elite from power will not be nice or kind or good, either. Nor will it result in the overthrow of the system. Rather, the seizing of the system, and the deliberate use of its remaining institutional frame-work to persecute the enemy that has been thrown from power.
Only after that fails, too, will the present system finally collapse. Then we build new things. Or rather: we build old things anew.
TL;DR -- the coming conflict has no "good guys", and the most virtuous task in all of this is to rebuild after the conflict... and to now preserve as much as you can, carry it through the bad times, that it may still be cherished in later days.