Basically, what it comes down to is: In my heart of hearts, I just don't believe that a revolution will happen in my lifetime, even if I live to be an old-ass man.
So if I were to just go all-in on hoping for revolution as opposed to anything electoralism-related, in my brain, I'd pretty much be admitting to myself that I personally won't live to see anything get really significantly better, that when I die everything's still gonna suck or be even worse than when I was born.
And I guess I just can't bear to admit that to myself.
Wasn't 1905 peaceful until the tsar's troops opened fire on a bunch of protestors who were carrying his portrait?
That's only one of maybe a dozen reasons why there isn't a revolution around the corner.
This is magical thinking -- thinking that we're on the verge of this spontaneous, seemingly impossible thing that will solve our problems.
I can't say when the revolution will happen. Nor can I say if a nuclear war or some other catastrophe will happen first. But to think that things will just go on forever like this—isn't that also pretty crazy? Do you think that fifty or a hundred years from now, everything is pretty much just going to be the same, but worse?