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Originally Posted by demonrail666
It's definitely a frustrating time we live in. I see a lot of people talking revolution but its largely adopting a language handed down from the 1960s. Retro-revolt if you like, as if all people want these days is their own version of an Abbie Hoffman. Shifts in economic, racial, gender and class politics over the last quarter of a century have rendered much of the thinking associated with the sixties counter-culture even more misguided than they were at the time. Protests against the Vietnam war, racial segregation, nuclear arms, etc., were straightforward compared with the more deeply interlocking issues that face us today.
How we tackle them is of course the great problem in that it'll clearly take massive infrastructural change and a period of potential transitional unrest, but whatever changes need to be made they need to be based on facts rather than received dogma.
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Nice post, I appreciate your thoughts.
For the moment, the troubling aspects of Warner must be addressed first and foremostly.
The long-term solution is really rather simple. Well, it's simple in its elegance of formulation, but rather difficult to execute due to obvious inherency issues. But it
is a solution that fixes a broken America. Either institute iron-clad campaign finance reform across the board to clean-up politics (and keep term limits as they are), or just add an amendment prohibiting repeat terms of office and putting an end to career politicians for good. If people fail to get behind this key aspect of addressing change and instead fall (once again) for splintering off in a thousand different directions expending their energies trying to fix a thousand different problems, then they play right into the control's hands, and nothing will ever get done and nothing will change. People seem to have real mental difficulty when it comes to correctly assessing what the real priority is and what the root of all of our problems is, namely, political corruption based on greed and/or vested interest in a political "career."
I've written about American patriot
Doris Haddock before on this board. She's the elderly woman who walked across America to raise political consciousness in favor of responsible representation, and got the first attempt at campaign finance reform passed. The slippery snakes were able to wriggle out of that one.
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