The next time someone tells you the youth aren’t engaged enough in politics, just point them to Nepal.
According to multiple reports, the youth of the South Asian nation managed to oust the existing government following an attempted ban of major social media platforms and took to Discord to hold an impromptu convention to elect an interim prime minister.
The organizing appears to have worked. On Friday, the military accepted the recommendation of the protest group and named Karki the interim prime minister. Karki, who accepted the role, is expected to pick a new cabinet and eventually hold elections. According to the Times, that is expected to happen within the next six months or so.
Unfortunately, when it happens here its going to be a long, awful, drawn out, bloody conflict.
The No Kings protests demonstrated, if literally nothing else, that record-breaking groups of people across the country can remain mostly peaceful with extremely high underlying emotions churning.
This administration will be the downfall of the system and people will barely have to lift a finger. When the US economy inevitably crashes, people’s comfort will be in jeopardy - mass bloodshed will not restore that. This isn’t the 1800s, we literally are too big and our systems are too fragile to support and sustain a massive, drawn-out civil war.
conservative gang factions already killing each other, we can wait a bit longer as they weaken
They’re in the purge phase. The Night of the Long Knives approaches as we head into October.