Change brought through parliamentary politics tends to be slow, incremental, and easily reversible

Change brought through parliamentary politics tends to be slow, incremental, and easily reversible.

Change brought through parliamentary politics tends to be slow, incremental, and easily reversible. Reforms often patch up surface problems without dealing with their root causes. And being at the whim of the electoral cycle, while creating rapid mobilization at first, also brings unavoidable demobilization, rarely translating into a sustainable, organized movement beyond election day.

– The Shock Doctrine of the Left

Reformism.