The prescription to fix so much of what's wrong with this country is simple

[struggle4progress]

140. The effect would not be as salutarious as you imagine: the politics of blood-in-the-streets

is an ugly and degenerative politics, that tends to reproduce itself for quite a while afterwards; it cultivates a certain self-righteousness, an inability to compromise, a savage over-simplification of other people, and it replaces rational persuasion by a tendency to mutilate flesh. Once you animate that golem, you cannot control its further progress: every base human desire becomes cloaked in fine-sounding motives. There may sometimes be just wars and there may sometimes be necessary revolts, but such events, even when unavoidable, are hellish affairs

And the bottom line is always that even in war or revolution, one ignores politics at one's peril: one cannot escape the necessity of persuading people. This being the case, one always does better to start with persuasion and the ordinary tools of politics, and to craft them into the finest tools possible, being drawn to other options only slowly, rather than to embark on projects of ruination heedlessly with the aim of emotional self-satisfaction