Radical dissatisfaction tends to breed a call for radical change, but most of the time the violent and sudden is too spasmodic, too chaotic, for anything genuinely good to result. What I think in general tends to happen is a reversion more or less to the status quo ante, but slightly worse.
The paradigm I always use for political change is the French Revolution, which supposedly opposed among other things political repression, and which instead perfected it. None of the French kings had ever conducted anything quite like the Terror, although I’m sure true repressions happened often enough. The Bastille was largely empty when it was stormed. Bastille Day recollects what amounted to a symbolic victory over, really, nothing. At least one of the prisoners released was a serial pedophile who presumably went back to it. No victory there.
And of course the whole thing led first to Napoleon, then to a restoration of the monarch, at least according to my recollection.
The winning strategy is not to replace an undesired order with chaos, but to soften the order, and mold the edges, reshape it, revision it, and allow in new light and new behavior and standards.
America is a good example. We started with slavery. We ended slavery. We had Jim Crow. We ended Jim Crow.
The next logical step is universal individual moral growth. To become a nation of responsible and morally conscious savants. But that requires the notion of individual moral conscience, and the political Left, because it is foundationally on a continuum between neurotic and psychotic, does not recognize such a thing. They argue for “social morality” because it takes the lens off of them as individuals–it basically allows them to stagnate while fulminating daily about “progress”; and because such a notion continues to allow for the expression of violence in the (false) name of morality.
Morality, really, is a fine mask. If you are constantly talking about the Good, people are less likely to ask if you ARE good. I am realizing I myself have been wearing that mask, too. It is pure neuroticism that has driven much of my work.
But that, too, is changing slowly. I am sincere about my work. I just haven’t been clear sighted. My pain has made it too hard. Again, though, that is changing slowly, and slow change tends to be lasting change, sustainable change.