Reply #51: Well, for the scenario you want . . .

[HughBeaumont]

138 million of us could rise up, abandon our livelihoods, financial situation be damned, and storm the White House and the homes of the uber-wealthy plutocrats like Lee Raymond, Dick Cheney, Larry Ellison, the China Mart Family, etc. The nation as well as the entire world's economy (especially our major trading partners, THANKS to said rich people, China and India) would be thrown into mass upheaval. Thousands upon thousands of us can get nuked and dusted by Blackwater, button-pusher Cheney and the police, all of whom would protect the interests of the "betters". Those that succeed somehow in getting past them and onto the homes of the rich and fascist will find them either suicided or fled to Paraguay. We wouldn't have a nation's capital because it'd be radiated or blood-drenched, as would our major cities.

And then what happens?

Would someone in the population know how to rebuild everything from scratch again? How long would that take? What sort of government would arise? What would stop it from being as predatory as the last one?

Your "blood in the streets" vision would have consequences none of us could even imagine. You think you're dealing with a Nixonesque bunch here? Those guys are long, LONG gone. This is an authoritarian by any means necessary corporatocracy now. They couldn't care less about our voice. They couldn't care LESS about our future. Time value of money models and mercenary economics are how they own and operate. 3-4 million people around the world were in the street. They went to occupy anyway.

At least Nixon, shitty of a president as he was, had a sense of country and legacy. These people don't care about popularity. They never have.

"Spare me the hyperbole" all you want . . . I want you to stop blaming the people for caring what happens to their children. My son is NOT getting sacrificed for the likes of Kellogg, Brown and Root. You think what's happening over in Iraq is a DEFENSE of our country's rights and freedoms?

I want to know how, when we elected a democratic congress to stop funding this war, that it is somehow OUR fault that they instead gave the Failure Fuhrer blank checks?

I want to know how, when I voice my opinion in protest in DC, it's my fault for not being disobedient enough to get an arrest record and a felony tacked to my ass while everyone else watches and turns their heads because of the very real fear of arrest and murder by goons?

I want to know WHY ANYONE, especially ANY CHILD, has to bear the burden AT ALL?

You once said that the worst thing anyone could do at all is destroy a child's hopes and dreams.

How is sending them to fiery mangled deaths by force for ABSOLUTELY NOTHING going to accomplish any kind of dream at all? All because you want to instill in them some appreciation and stake for a country that has nothing to give them except an insurmountable debt, lousy education, offshored jobs and no universal health care?

We TRIED caring. I guess we failed because we chose to go through life trying simply to pay our bills and raise our children right, which is difficult enough as it is. I guess we failed because the US isn't passionate enough to want to turn DC into a gorewash. You frog march politicians and you still have the corporations.

We already HAVE a plutocracy. Some of us are just a little less naive about it's presence.