At the end of the day, they’re just an human being with no supernatural powers or such. Their “powers” solely depends on a population which follows them. So if, in a country all the common people and the ones who work under the leader just suddenly decided to disobey the leader and United together, (disregarding their political and religious beliefs) how would it change the nation?
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So just a coup? That’s happened countless times…
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No world leader depends on the “population” to follow them. As an example, any dictatorship is ruled by only a fraction of the population – the military.
Leaders do not have power based on popularity. They have it based on the fact that they pay the people with the most important weapons. There are large numbers of geographic areas, including those within the United states, where the general population does not actually “follow” the leader, or pay income taxes, or anything else. They are without exception, poor.
They are irrelevant because at the end of the day, money flows to the centralized governments because the people who have guns would shoot people with money/assets, otherwise.
If we want to be more specific to America, a general strike would result in the majority of people who live paycheck to paycheck not being able to afford food, medicine, or anything else. Whatever horrible news comes out today, tomorrow, etc…, more than 90% of people are going to continue to try to eat and provide for their family. Which means showing up to work. Which also means that even if a poor person is very well armed, a drone strike could put that person and their family into generational abject poverty (i.e. worse) and they definitely don’t have weapons that counter a fpv.
As a contrasting example, Syria’s 11 million people didn’t require 5,500,001 people fighting the government. It was only a few hundred thousand fighters (across at least 3 major groups) fighting roughly 200,000 government troops and mercenaries.
Historically, this is true throught history, unless you consider stuff like hordes (i.e. nomadic). Governments are small groups of people with a monopoly on the legal use of violence, and the key is “small.”
That might not be the best approach. Your idea of ‘everyone’ excludes those with opposing views. Just as you support one side, many others are firmly behind the other. You’ll first need to think carefully about how to handle their supporters. Inciting violence—whether through a riot or a coup—could severely undermine your message and credibility, and might even be used to justify stricter enforcement of laws through additional Executive Orders.
Violence is not the way.
Why not? But you’d have to unite the whole nation to strike or picket. Not just region or a small portion of the state. Everyone would have to coordinate a day or two. To show the dismay and make the biggest workers union ever to leverage more pay, benefits, mandatory time off and so on.