Coercive Redundancy Prevents Revolutions

When a regime build(s) overlapping, ideologically vetted coercive institutions (elite guards, paramilitaries, intelligence networks) whose members’ livelihoods and social status are tied to the system, mass protest alone cannot produce rapid regime collapse. Redundant command chains and socialized loyalty create a structural barrier to defections that historically tipped revolutions. — This reframes popular '1979' analogies and constrains calls for external intervention or rapid change by showing the hard limits of protest‑driven revolution in modern theocratic/authoritarian states.