Is revolution the only way we can elicit change?

[Zorra]

19. Yes, most likely. I wish it wasn't so, but the ability to democratically determine our national

destiny has been stolen from us by the 1%, and the only way to get it back from them is to take it through focused, extremely well planned, effective, and relentless non-violent democratic direct action, that has in place foolproof safeguards that will prevent conscienceless, greedy authoritarian egotists from ever assuming power before and/or after transition.

The next step is to insure that the people are well provided with the necessities of life during transition, and maintain the degree of freedom and safety to which they are accustomed until the new democracy is able to increase their freedom to the point where we can genuinely democratically choose our own national destiny as one united people, and effect our own means to increase our safety and happiness, free from interference from the self-interested greed and megalomania of those who would seek to control our government for their own pleasure. Which they are doing right now to the extreme detriment of all the other people in our country and our world.

Changing the power structure is always risky business; rulers from the economically privileged and morally/ethically bankrupt class never give up their place, and their power willingly, and will commit all manner of crimes against humanity in order to maintain and increase their wealth, power, control, and authority.

Jefferson thought it out very well while he was writing the Declaration of Independence, but he and the other revolutionaries of his day were unable to install the safeguards necessary to prevent wealthy sociopaths from taking over the government because of the necessity of compromising with those who were already asserting that the rights of commercial interests needed to be recognized as sometimes necessarily taking precedence over the will and rights of the people. The 1% sabotaged democracy in the US pretty much before day one, and the conundrum we face today regarding our national situation is the direct result of the founders not implementing safeguards to prevent wealthy sociopaths from usurping the government of the United States.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security...."

It takes a village to raze a government.