Anonymous: <p>It's a little confusing just what it is the uprising was even fighting for because the Grid was never truly free to begin with. It just went from a monarchic hereditary theocracy (Flynn) to an autocratic military junta (CLU). Dictator to dictator. </p>

Yeah all they really knew is that things got mostly worse under Clu’s system.

Even if we’ve never experienced the political setup we believe would be actually best for everyone… we still know when things get worse, and we still fight for something better than what we’ve got.