We All Need to Have a Serious Conversation About Revolution

Well, it’s official dearest motherfuckers, America has become the world’s largest third world dictatorship. If the first two months of 2026 don’t prove this to you with flying colors than I’m terrified to ask what will. Since Christmas, Donald Trump has been swinging the Executive Office high above his head like some sick orange Gogo Yubari with a White House shaped meteor hammer, decapitating everything in sight.

He has kidnapped another nation’s strongman and held what’s left of his regime hostage for their entire oil industry like some God sized Baby Face Nelson. He has bluntly demanded that Europe hand over Greenland like a lunchroom dessert and threatened to just run it over with his bike if they refuse.

He has also turned an entire department of the federal government into his own private paramilitario that raids American cities like masked Mongol hordes and leaves poorly trained, twenty-year old trolls to police the streets with machine guns and videogame sadism.

With each one of these blatantly desperate stunts Donald Trump seems to be pushing the envelope of acceptable statecraft just a little further, testing both America’s and the world’s tolerance for increasingly obscene violations of international and constitutional law while pushing us all a little closer to Brave New World territory each and every time he gets away with it, and he just keeps getting away with it.

The problem is that every institution of power hypothetically capable of reigning in this unhinged imbecile was designed by the very system he finds himself in charge of for the express purpose of making that system unaccountable to any power above capital and now, a rogue section of capital in this country has recklessly decided to bet the house during apocalyptic times on the whims of said unhinged imbecile who also happens to possess a ferociously ignorant and populist-flavored cult of personality.

And thus, your favorite humble contrarian muckraker finds herself in the uncomfortable position of conferring with the Never Trumpers and Always Demers, that one Donald J. Trump is indeed the reincarnation of Adolf Hitler, and we are all very seriously fucked. It’s not as if I didn’t see this coming. I have been ranting for years about the inevitable collapse of Pax Americana’s New Rome. Any system of power massive enough to govern the globe from the barrel of an ICBM is inherently unsustainable and naked despotism has historically been the last resort of collapsing empires.

I just didn’t see it all coming down so quickly and I definitely didn’t see a verbally incontinent, reality television rapist being the Sith lord capable of steering Helter Skelter into the sun… but here we are now, entertain us…

Having belched that barrage of coprolalia into the void, the real question we all need to be asking right now is what the fuck are we going to do about it. A pretty good portion of humanity clearly seems to recognize that we are gazing into the abyss at the moment but how exactly do we turn this ship around from the brink of oblivion?

Every shitlib and his neocon cousin is going to tell me to get out and vote, but we’ve tried that already. In fact, we’ve been trying that since King George, voting for every savior one side or the other has thrown at us from Jefferson to Kennedy and they have all led us here.

With a lecherous, syphilitic baboon in office, only electable by the fact that lesser evil liberal democracy has chased us down a rabbit hole where your average Democrat is now to the left of Richard Nixon and your average Republican salutes a Manhattan national socialite who treats tax dollars the way Tony Soprano treats pocket change at the racetrack.

Third parties are all fine and good. I’m a registered Libertarian who voted for Jill Stein twice. But let’s face it, the entire electoral system in this nation is corrupt beyond repair. Just look at the way they screwed Ron Paul and Bernie Sanders in the Primaries just for using the talking points of third-party candidates. The sick, sad and depressingly sick reality here is that America did not become this fucked up yesterday.

It has been a long, excruciating process that began with a bunch of genocidal slave rapists in white whigs calling their runaway apartheid colony a democracy and ended with happy shiny people like Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton holding hands and endowing the Executive Office with the powers of Ozymandias before discrediting anything to the left of Satan by draping globalism in a rainbow flag and singing kumbaya while throwing babies into the fires of Palestine.

At some point we all have to address the colossal elephant in the room. That which is unspeakable in politically correct quarters. At some point somebody has to say the word ‘revolution’ and I’m not talking about some commie-scented air-freshener for a champaign socialist candidacy in SOHO. I am talking in no uncertain terms about all of us putting our partisan tribalism aside and doing what I think we all know needs to be done. I am talking about having a serious and ongoing conversation about overthrowing the government of the United States of America.

I know, we could all go on some Palantir kill list just for thinking such heresy out loud but at the end of the day there is no polite way to do this. Our government is fucking evil and it needs to go.

This doesn’t have to mean some epic bloodbath; however, I do feel obliged by reality to alert you that we’re already in some epic bloodbath as we speak and being polite doesn’t seem to be doing anyone any favors. With that being said, the success rate of a bunch of bros with Kalashnikovs toppling the king isn’t much higher than getting the ghost of Eugene Debs in the Supreme Court, and even in the best-case scenario, it has a tendency of merely replacing butchers with slightly more diverse butchers.

Don’t get me wrong, any form of substantial revolutionary change is going to be an uphill battle that probably includes some actual fucking battle, but I don’t think coming in shooting is a very productive or moral way to start.

The powerful have worked very hard over the centuries to associate the word revolution exclusively with wanton acts of bloodshed but there is more than one way to skin a state.

The general strike comes to mind. Under such a scenario, a broad coalition of workers would organize and essentially agree to cease all economic activity, including working, thus shutting down the economy until their demands are met. This tactic has been gaining more and more steam among left-wing laborers attempting to force the goons of ICE from their cities.

However, while the general strike seems to have widespread appeal among the rank and file, the major unions themselves have become too corrupted by the two-party plutocracy to do anything but dump cold water on the fire. For any major strike to be truly revolutionary it would have to be done wildcat style without even consulting union leadership beyond letting them know that it’s on whether they like it or not. It would also need to be done with a single demand front and center and that demand is the full and immediate removal of the current regime in charge of the Executive Office along with the dissolution of that office itself.

The First Russian Revolution of 1905 was largely fought this way and though it ended in bloodshed, it also left the Czar in a weak enough position to make a Second Russian Revolution downright inevitable.

And the general strike can be taken to the next level with a mass unarmed occupation of the location of the seat of power itself. This was attempted with the anti-Vietnam war protests of May Day 1971 in which about 15,000 protestors flooded the streets of Washington DC, blocking major intersections and bridges under the slogan “If the government won’t stop the war, we’ll stop the government.”

Most modern historians now claim it failed to achieve anything other than affecting the largest arrest for civil disobedience in US history with local, state, and federal officers dragging away over 12,000 shaggy haired participants. However, then-CIA Director Richard Helms has admitted that the spectacle delivered a devastating blow to the Nixon Administration’s credibility, softening them up for the upheaval of Watergate, and we now know that similar protests led by GIs in barracks across the globe inspired the Pentagon to pull the plug on Vietnam less than two years later.

More recently, we also saw how easy it was for Donald Trump to manipulate a pack of poorly armed diabetic boomers to take the Capitol on January 6. I’ve long joked that if that mutiny were thrown by a bunch of anarchists, they would still be smoking dope and playing hacky sack in the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone as we speak.

All these things considered however, I personally do not hold a great deal of hope for any of these tactics leading to anything more substantial than regime change and as I stated earlier, our problems as a country are far greater than any single regime.

This is why I have come to favor agorism; Samuel Edward Konkin’s tactic of taking the entire economy off the grid by expanding the black and grey markets into a vast and diverse counter-economy of alternative currencies, barter systems, and mutual aid societies that simultaneously creates a viable alternative to the corporate state system while also starving it of its revenue. This also helps to answer the biggest question that plagues every revolution; what’s next?

What we need now is much bigger than any single revolutionary act or even any single revolutionary movement. What we need is a revolutionary mindset. To get ‘we the people’ to completely rethink the way we approach power itself. I am still a strong supporter of democracy, but I tend to believe that the only truly democratic system of governance is that of the direct democracy, specifically of the consensus variety. The fact that this only works on a small scale is perfectly natural considering that nothing really works on a large scale and in here lies the crux of our current predicament.

America itself is a construct that is inherently unsustainable as well as inherently incompatible with democracy as anything but an empty slogan to commit war crimes under. The leviathan must be broken down into autonomous sized pieces, into self-sustaining communes, collectives, and polities. The American people will never truly know freedom until they accept these basic facts and begin building real existing democracies within the shell of Ozymandias. That way, once that colossus finally is overthrown, there won’t even be a need to replace it. A thousand little democracies will already be there ready to bloom through the cracks of the ruins.

And that is true revolution, dearest motherfuckers, we may just need to remove another Czar to give us a little more time to build it under weaker despots and that is the dangerous conversation I am attempting to start right now. Please, don’t shoot the messenger three times in the face, I get enough of that shit from my own government.

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