We need a new system

[MineralMan]

39. I can't imagine any consensus from that coalition you suggest.

Truly. Look at DU. We can't even agree on much here, and the spectrum here is much narrower.

The problem with vandalism is that it acts very, very locally, and against organizations that are national or even global. There is no vandalism that would destroy any major corporation that I can think of. All vandalism will do is to inconvenience many of the people you need to join you. The Tea Party is remembered today, certainly, but the budding nation was quite small at the time, and the population was equally small. Besides, the American Revolution had an easily-identifiable enemy that was across an ocean. That's very different from the situation today.

Today, we have 350 million people, scattered across a very large country, and the enemy of some may not be the enemy of many others. There is no single enemy to focus on, truly. If the enemy is capitalism as a concept, it won't work, since most people who are employed actually work for corporations, both large and small. Destroy the corporations and you destroy their livelihood. While a group of General Motors workers might agree that, say, Bank of America is evil and should be taken down, they will not agree that General Motors should be, since it affects their livelihood.

England was an easy enemy for the American Revolution. It was identifiable, definable, and disliked by many. If the enemy is our own system, rather than a foreign government, it's a lot more difficult to build the kind of massive, unstoppable force that can overturn that. I say it's impossible.