Reposted by Caroline Ritchie
"Countries that relied only on the normal tools (voting, suing, legislating) climbed back to democracy seven percent of the time... But! Countries that added a civil resistance movement on top of that... climbed back fifty-one percent of the time."
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Why Just Voting Isn’t Enough to Stop a Dictator
Three reasons to remember we are the only guardrails we have.