Reply #29: Are we really taking the words of that drunken RW sot seriously now?

[Chan790]

If I wanted to know what moderate Republicans think...I could find better ones to ask than Hitch.

Whatever problems are going to be solved will be by-necessity solved within the current political system because whatever support OWS might have among the non-radicalized 99% will dissipate by sunset if they start talking about revolutionary system change as opposed to reforms and equality. People somewhat have an emotive attachment to this political system and its' foundation ideals even if they think the current atmosphere is mere lip-service to those ideals...we're not the French who have been through five republics in the time we've existed as a nation. We're certainly not a socialist nation and thus you're stuck with reform of the constitutional republic and capitalism rather than their replacement.

As a great military thinker once noted, one can choose one's battle or one's battlefield.