I have hope for a proletarian revolution, just not a big one. We are not taking the steps necessary to assure the new boss isnt Same As The Old Boss < Pete Townshend shriek >

But when enough people die or we are forced to face our own capitulation with death camps (mass graves will do) or even after a century of EU / China occupation and provisional government, we might want a system that has a truly fair election system and ironclad checks and balances, even an extra-broad distribution of executive power.

Maybe even institutionalized wealth redistribution. (When I was taking [capitalist] macroeconomics 101 in college circa 1985 it was well known how wealth disparity can undermine democratic features of government.)

Or the leopards will eat all our faces. Just all of them. Then the only working class remaining will be imprisoned and forced to work. All the experts will be long dead. And resource reserves will quickly become scant as the ownership class (Ayn Rand’s maker class) will get to experience the truth of Rand’s post-taker society.

And that’s when the paramilitary class will realize they don’t need the ownership class. (See Elysium 2013)

So, if we’re lucky, the revolution will be nonviolent and we’ll squeak by with enough reformation to work towards a multi-party system and get rid of the slave-state–favoring imbalances. It won’t stop the stupid (or the far-right — infused with billionaire cash) trying to demonize intelligentsia and academia, but it’ll allow us to move towards a capitalist state with socialized services and a propensity towards moderate ministers. (Great Britain went this direction and is now seeing deterioration of their system thanks to Tory meddling.)