You need to define “revolution,” first. What is that? What does it look like? It’s difficult to respond directly until you offer more specifics.
As for me, I believe in democracy and I believe in procedure. You can’t blow up a system by attacking it frontally. There are real and intended constraints that have been put there to guard against “revolution” — and they are there to protect both sides (what’s to stop a right wing “revolution”?) In order to be successful, you must accept and understand these restraints and work within them.
I do think things continue to get better, despite setbacks, like the setback we’re living in now. Life is, by every measure and metric better than it was in 1968, let alone 1938 or 1888. And change sticks when it’s achieved legitimately. Social movements like BLM or same-sex marriage have more success in shorter amounts of time than any of the social movements of the past. And I expect them to continue. Same-sex marriage is very nearly settled law — barring some kind of religious right “revolution” — because it is legitimate. It’s safe. It’s a battle that was won over the course of about a decade (although it’s roots are in the AIDS crisis) and it was won thriguh hearts & minds as well as court cases and legislation. No one imposed it by fiat, and you’ll recall that when Gavin Newsome tried to do as much — “whether you like it or not” — we got Prop 8.
These are tactical disagreements — again, I can only assume, because you’re often short on specifics. We likely share 90%+ of the same end goals. I find the tactics you advocate to be much more likely to end in failure and reversal of progress.
I think we've seen that there isn't much there to stop a right wing revolution beyond the simple fact that right wing ideas are not that popular overall. If over half of this country was truly united behind the ideas espoused by the GOP, big business, and military industrial complex, we'd be an explicitly fascist state already.
Things are only improving if you look at things through a narrow lens. Civil rights have improved in the sense that it is now illegal to discriminate in certain ways against minority groups. They find ways around that, most of them economic. And things have unquestionably gotten worse economically since the 1960s. Social issues and technology are the places where we've seen progress and improvement, and even with the latter, that's only if your sole goal is discovery, unmoored from any sort of morality.
I think same-sex marriage is an exception to the rule in some sense. It didn't threaten anyone's pocket book at the end of the day. And it had the unique situation of being made the law of the land once in a sweeping fashion, which allowed people to realize how much it failed to actually threaten their day-to-day lives and give up their fervent opposition. It was unquestionably a good thing to have same-sex marriage become the law of the land. But the opposition was pretty content to give up the ghost when push came to shove. That energy has simply moved elsewhere. For example: by targeting trans people. But it's also moved other, somewhat unrelated places.
Anyway, moving on to some specifics.
My end goal on healthcare is universal healthcare through a single-payer system with the elimination of private insurance companies. And I would strongly argue, with lots of evidence, that the tactic of incrementalism there ends in failure and a reversal of progress.
My end goal on housing and poverty is a revitalized social safety net, guaranteed housing, the elimination of private and charter schools. Housing is healthcare, and a failure to acknowledge that is a failure to understand and attack the problem.
My end goal on foreign policy is an end to interventionist policies and a drastic scaledown of the military. I would strongly argue, with lots of evidence, that the move to proxy wars and drone strikes has been at minimum net neutral, but very likely worse, a failure, and a reversal of progress.
My end goal on labor is the breakup of monopolies and the nationalization of major corporations. A jobs guarantee, a reduction of the work week, a major increase in paid time off, child care, maternity and paternity leave, and ultimately the preparation for a society not built around work, as automation continues to move our society beyond the need to have everyone spend the bulk of their time on their jobs.
My end goal on policing is the abolition of the police. That includes the FBI and the CIA.
My end goal on racial justice is all of the things outlined above, as well as reparations. It's removing our support from Israel so long as they continue their unconscionable and illegal treatment of the Palestinian people.
And my end goal is to state unequivocally those as goals, and not hedge on them and start in compromise positions because they're big and bold compared to the current immoral and unjust system in place. I want to see candidates for office stating all of these things, from the local levels all the way on up. I want people to make the case for them with full confidence and voice and not apologize or play games. I want to see the half-measures called out for being failures and support for them eroded.
So no, I don't think Democrats share the same end goals.
