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Well the first step to fixing it is to throw Obama out of office (that starts with finger pointing). That would be the single most powerful statement that the U

• parasubvert 13y ago
  That assumes you have an electable replacement in mind that will not cause worse problems.
  • etherael 13y ago
    No, because "electable" may as well be shorthand for "will behave in the same fashion as the last two puppet stooges" End the game, not the players.
    • parasubvert 13y ago
      Change the game, sure. End the game? No. Revolutions usually wind up with a much worse game as a result.
      • etherael 13y ago
        Consider if the world had never had a revolution the current state we would be in. I don't buy that's a better picture.
        • parasubvert 13y ago
          In most cases, revolution was dynamite that blew up the old regime, and had little bearing on creating a desirable society and regime to take its place. In most of Europe this happened through centuries of political reform. We like to romanticize the few revolutions that had positive outcomes (America), but also downplay the utterly disastrous consequences of others (France). We also like to ignore that today's terrorists are often what we used to call revolutionaries. (Was 9/11 was not Act 1 in a revolution in US governance?) My point is that violence exists, and revolutions happen. But they exist to destroy, not to create. Annoying, compromising, good old politics haVe to clean up the mess and replace it with something better. That's rare.