Oppression, Resistance & Revolution: Friday

[hisownagenda.livejournal.com]

Magneto was sitting behind the desk at the front of the classroom this morning as the students walked in. In his hands was a form of archaic media known as a newspaper. It was a couple days old and had the election results plastered across the front page.

"Unless you've been living under a stone, this particular universe just had an election this past Tuesday. In this election key people were elected or re-elected based on the candidates' platforms. Based upon the definitions I provided to you last week, I want you to answer the following question."

Magneto rose and tossed the newspaper onto the desk.

"Is an election a true form of revolution? Why?"

He then pointed at a random student. "You. Answer."

Comments

Re: Discussion

[holy-daughter.livejournal.com]

"Could such a thing happen?" Lucrezia asked. "Those in power prefer to stay in power. The mutant rights activists could easily be painted as extremists, unless they agree to play the game the same way everyone else does."

Lucrezia was a cynic. But then, her father had bought a Papacy.

Re: Discussion

[ultron_junior]

"I didn't say it was likely," Victor pointed out. "Just that if it happened, it would count as a revolution."

Re: Discussion

[holy-daughter.livejournal.com]

"True, you didn't," she agreed easily. "What if those activists were voted in, but never found themselves able to enact change? Would it still be a revolution, but a failed one?"

Re: Discussion

[ultron_junior]

"I guess," Victor said, turning to get a better look at Lucrezia. "Why, what do you think?"

He hadn't necessarily put a huge amount of thought into his response in the first place.

Re: Discussion

[holy-daughter.livejournal.com]

Lucrezia flushed. "My experiences may not be applicable to modern society," she explained. "But my father bought his way onto the throne of St. Peter's, and he was hardly the only one engaged in simony. I have seen alliances made and disintegrated as easily as one draws breath. I helped to stop a war by batting my eyes at a King who had no mistress. Perhaps Rome has disillusioned me."

Re: Discussion

[abitlowkey]

"Revolution is fickle, indeed," Loki chimed in, not looking up from his phone. "Power is never secure, however. There is always someone or some cause nipping at the heels of those above them."

Re: Discussion

[holy-daughter.livejournal.com]

"It seems as though it takes more effort to hold the throne than to obtain it," Lucrezia agreed. "Father only had to buy the papacy. He's needed the full use of an army to secure it."

One which would have been better suited in Cesare's hands than Juan's, but thinking of Juan led to its own painful difficulties, these days.