Revolutions like Egypt or East Germany are hard to do. In America, it is nigh impossible. [View All]

[thereismore]

It takes a long time for the public anger to boil over and remove the corrupt regime. It takes a united nation.

We in America have a system in which part of the people get a sense of accomplishment when their party's candidate becomes President. It happens every 4 or 8 years, frequently enough to give a part of the people the illusion that they have been heard, that they matter. The two-term rule makes sure that no one President, corrupt or otherwise, can stay for too long to make people sufficiently miserable and angry to unite and get a meaningful change in the government. In the meantime, our corporate overlords choose who runs for President and hedge their bets, and so they are always happy with the outcome of elections. This is a recipe for a corporate government, and a people who never figure out that they have been had.

It takes a transformational figure, something that happens once in a 100 years maybe, to truly change this mechanism from within. I thought that Barack Obama is the one, and he still may be the one. His presidency isn't over by a long shot, so only the future will tell.