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In reply to the discussion: "You're goddamn right we want to take from the rich ..." [View all]jtuck004
(15,882 posts)back, repeat. We are still doing the same thing.
France's revolution ended with the wealthy replacing the tyrant and the the leader of the revolution, along with a lot of citizens, losing their heads. Some good came of it for us, but not for them. The truly wealthy learned that "Revolutions" are opportunities for profit.
We don't have to go that far (I have real trouble picturing most American citizens casting aside their remote and leaping from the lazyboy). Enough would have to agree that we need to stop the giving of wealth to the pirates. If we stop giving it to them, they fall over. Figure out a way to end all the debt, and move forward with something else that doesn't involve US keeping THEM healthy. That's tens of millions of people all agreeing to the same path, a lot of organizing, though. Surely there is already a party that serves those interests.
I can't think of one off the top of my head, though.