Face it, "working the system" is only producing gradual, not revolutionary, change! I say it's time!

[Bucky]

It's like, electing a new alpha male didn't change everything overnight all at once. It's like there's these so-called other branches in our government doing all this checking and balancing shit for God-knows-what reason and even though we won that so-called election in 2008, the Republicans decided to be obstinate and immature and obstructionist any chance they got and, for the first time I can remember acted entirely in bad faith. I mean, what the fuck? Whoever could have seen that coming?

Why must change be so slow? This is America, dammit!

Slowness of change is entirely unprecedented in American History! Think about all the great victories for liberals in our past! They've always happened all at once, accomplished by idealists who didn't bother to mollycoddle the impotent political so-called center. The Abolitionist Movement (1791-1865) quickly achieved their goals by winning office and appealing to pure reason. The Suffragist Movement (1848-1920) rallied to their causes, organized, and didn't take a lot of muddleheaded crap from the appeasers in society--they got shit done. And the Progressive Movement (1890-1917) reformed government and business regulation in America practically overnight! Goddamn it, Obama's been president for, what, nearly 30 months now? Where the fuck is my pony?!?

Great progress happens all at once. Do you think that the push by organized labor to achieve the eight hour workday required a slow grind, year after year, only to be accomplished in increments?! Poppycock! They got their guy elected once or twice and then it just magically happened in 1898 (by the UMW negotiating with the anthracite, but not the bituminous, mining companies... and then by the construction unions in 1900 and then by printers unions in 1905 and then by Ford employees in 1914 and finally by federal legislation in 1915 although only for railroad workers and then by legislation for just about everyone in 1937) but they didn't settle for any of that gradualism bullshit! It's got to be victory all for our way--otherwise our elected so-called leaders are total sell outs to Wall Street! FTW!

Let's face it, the problem isn't the system! The System is the problem! We'll never achieve political change through politics! That statement doesn't even make sense, when you so-called think about it!

I give up on Obama. What has he ever done for us?