Change or Exchange?

[Rhondazvous]

People like to talk about revolution, but revolution brings change and, truth be told, most Americans don't want change. They want exchange. Most Americans don't want to eliminate the system of haves and have-nots. They just want to be among the haves. Remember the so-called Occupy Wall Street a few years back, when  Americans thought they could have a revolution by popping in after work.

Neither was not protest will mean anything to the PTB. They will watch it all from their safe view from the sky.  The republicans may be assholes, but they're not the PTB. They're law makers and like Meyer Rothschild said "Gove me control over a nation's currency and I don't care who makes the laws." they don't care who the president is or who the next speaker of the house is going to be.

I did a little research and found that we have been in a recession or a depression for almost one third the time we've been a nation starting with the Panic of 1797. . Now that we are no longer a nation of producers but a nation of consumers, we have reached the point where most of us have become too addicted to material comfort to dream of making the sacrifices necessary to true revolution.

so what would a revolution look like under these circumstances?

[abaris]

Most Americans don't want to eliminate the system of haves and have-nots. They just want to be among the haves.

Speaking about humanity at large, not only Americans. That's why no revolution in history actually worked. Some changed the system, but only to be rigged in favor of a different demographic.

[Brakeman]

Sadly we've got to make corruption illegal first.

[AFTT47]

Now that we are no longer a nation of producers but a nation of consumers, we have reached the point where most of us have become too addicted to material comfort to dream of making the sacrifices necessary to true revolution.

Ouch! It's hard to argue with that.

I'm a tech guy who likes building things so I definitely concur. We need to get back to being producers if we want to regain our power. It was the industrial revolution that made America great and we will have to return to that if we don't want to get run over.

[Minimalist]

“It is the height of stupidity to claim that men who for a thousand years have had the power to berate us, to fleece us and to oppress us with impunity, will now agree, with good grace, to be our equals.”

Jean-Paul Marat

[Rhondazvous]

“It is the height of stupidity to claim that men who for a thousand years have had the power to berate us, to fleece us and to oppress us with impunity, will now agree, with good grace, to be our equals.”

Jean-Paul Marat

I could have freed more slaves if I could have convinced them that they were slaves.