Coming back to this thread, since I was just thinking about how a lot of people advocating for radical change are too "macro" in terms of who they oppose. ie., for most people in most places, it's far more revolutionary in a concrete sense---with far more bearing on everyday life---to oust the local administrator, regional governor, or petty tyrant sheriff than it is to try to overthrow the Emperor.
Or, as CrabCake put it in
this thread:In general (obviously not always, don't @ me with counterexamples), common people have far more to fear from local despots rather than supposed all-powerful tyrants who, for all their flaws, have to at least govern taking everybody into account.
