Gareth Mclean 🥀

When a banking collapse locked three million ordinary people out of their own wages, the working class of Paraguay did not write polite letters to parliamentary committees. They took to the streets, broke into the halls of power, and removed the politicians who enabled the theft. The political class will tell you this is chaos. They will say that order, legal patience, and established procedure are sacred, even when the law exists primarily to protect the men who looted the vault. That argument fails because it demands that citizens respect a social contract that the state tore up long ago. Order without justice is merely quiet subjugation. Parliaments do not concede power out of goodwill; they concede it when the fear of the people outside outweighs their greed inside. If the working class cannot strike, protest, and disrupt, then politics becomes nothing more than a private auction between bankers and ministers. A system that robs three million families of their livelihood is not broken: it is doing precisely what it was designed to do until someone forces it to stop.