Sometimes, I think it would have been better to have just let the government shut down.
Right now, there is a rather startling number of people in this country that don't like/don't trust/downright hate our government while somehow loving the country at the same time. It's amusing to say the least.
Perhaps I am an optimist, but I think that if the government shut down we would realize fairly quickly how much we wanted it back. Of course I fear that the wealthy will weather a government shutdown best right now, and that sucks, they might fully take over the country when it comes back, that's a possibility. But it is also a possibility that we, the people, the normal citizens would take it back from the overwhelming control which the aristocrats have over us now.
Maybe not, but if nothing drastic happens, I think we'll just continue down this steady decline until bloody revolution.
And it will be very, very bloody and very, very destructive if The People (Proletariat?) have to try to take some power out of the greedy Aristocracy. Perhaps that part is unavoidable, but I tend to think that the sooner it happens, the less awful it will be because the sooner it happens, the less money-power the Aristocracy will be in control of. During a revolution, what will happen is that people will realize that money isn't really power, it is only as powerful as we let it be. But our mental bookkeeping of this power wont fade overnight, there will always be people who can't let that go, and they will be easy pawns for the Aristocracy to defend with. Even the French nobles had a few loyals who probably extended their life-spans by, oh, two or three days.
The sooner revolution happens, the less money they have to fight with.
Also, if it happens quietly, instead of explosively, it may be less drastic...
Or will it simply be less of everything?
Right now, there is a rather startling number of people in this country that don't like/don't trust/downright hate our government while somehow loving the country at the same time. It's amusing to say the least.
Perhaps I am an optimist, but I think that if the government shut down we would realize fairly quickly how much we wanted it back. Of course I fear that the wealthy will weather a government shutdown best right now, and that sucks, they might fully take over the country when it comes back, that's a possibility. But it is also a possibility that we, the people, the normal citizens would take it back from the overwhelming control which the aristocrats have over us now.
Maybe not, but if nothing drastic happens, I think we'll just continue down this steady decline until bloody revolution.
And it will be very, very bloody and very, very destructive if The People (Proletariat?) have to try to take some power out of the greedy Aristocracy. Perhaps that part is unavoidable, but I tend to think that the sooner it happens, the less awful it will be because the sooner it happens, the less money-power the Aristocracy will be in control of. During a revolution, what will happen is that people will realize that money isn't really power, it is only as powerful as we let it be. But our mental bookkeeping of this power wont fade overnight, there will always be people who can't let that go, and they will be easy pawns for the Aristocracy to defend with. Even the French nobles had a few loyals who probably extended their life-spans by, oh, two or three days.
The sooner revolution happens, the less money they have to fight with.
Also, if it happens quietly, instead of explosively, it may be less drastic...
Or will it simply be less of everything?
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