Awesome read.
Why can't you yanks nominate people like the author of that piece for presidential candidates ? (Having Kennedy as your last name should be more then enough PR to make such an attempt viable, I'd think).
They did once and we saw what happened to two of them.
In my view, the system has to crash for any real reform to happen. Unfortunately, there are no easy paths anymore for painless improvement.
Ever since I first read this, I'm continually reminded of it when observing world affairs.
Herman Goring:
"Naturally, the common people don't want war ... but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country."
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