Kent Crispin writes:

This is an interesting competition for observers, bystanders, and citizens. If the power structure is flexible, and incorporates changes that are viewed favorably by the citizens, then the power structure "wins". But so do the citizens.

When change doesn't happen, or especially when it goes in a direction undesired by the revolutionaries, but liked by the citizens, the effort to make current reality look bad intensifies.

Kent's theory OTOH is that any tyranny is fine as long as 51% of the citizens favor it. The rest of us should pipe down and learn to live with it. Fortunately the authors of the US constitution didn't agree with this theory.

When change irrevocably passes to an unwanted state, and the revolutionaries "lose", a residue of Bitter Old Revolutionary Extremists (BOREs) results. These toothless old tigers, clinging to their youthful dreams, rage at a reality that passed them by. Snarling and perpetually misunderstood, they wither and waste away, Cheshire cat evil grimace postcripts to history.

Kent's been studying Youngbonics! Still a ways to go before he equals the master though. Looking forward to the BORE wars... BORE monger