Syria: If People Don't Do Their Own Damn Revolution, It Won't Work

[rhett o rick]

8. Even if a revolution is started from the ground, the elites will step in and

take over. Elite theory says that all organizations, governments, etc. are run by the elites. And I believe that all revolutions just replace one set of elite rulers with another. The new government may recognize they need to be nicer to the people, at least for a while. Revolutions make it easier for splinter groups to gain power which often turn out as bad or worse than the government that was replaced. The United States has had a terrible track record of choosing sides in foreign "revolutions".

I believe the American Revolution was unique. If it happened in England it would have been squashed. But it happened across a huge ocean while the Brits were fighting in Europe. And it was fortunate that the elites that believed in trying a new form of government that was a combination of democracy and republicanism.