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I'd rather be a doomer than an accelerationist. I get the thinking: Get the frog to notice it's being boiled. But we've seen some pretty dramatic disasters that haven't inspired sudden revolt. I don't want to bet on acceleration working, especially since if it fails, that means we just helped the enemy achieve swifter victory.

I theorise that the reason it doesn't work is because the acceleration goes hand in hand with normalization. If a massive amount of people voted for a hard left turn into chaos, with the intention of shocking normies into reaction, the primary effect among normies would be for them to think "Wow, there so much consensus for this path, it must be right. I better not voice by doubts about any of this or else people might think I'm weird."

I'm order to act, people need dire enough circumstances to have reason to act, and to feel they have permission to act. We already have all the reason we need, so accelerationism won't help there. All it will do is *diminish* the sense of permission to act.