I don't think your diary yesterday
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needs a whole lot more exposition. Only action, yet to be determined.
Hopefully, Obama is on a personal, perhaps hidden, "long game" trajectory to make Revolution unnecessary.
My earliest memory of politics or political news was while sitting at breakfast each morning at age 9 hearing the news from Cuba after Fidel's revolution had thrown out Batista's dictatorship.
What it has taken me an additional 50 years to realize for myself is the rage that the people then felt toward their former rulers.
The news I remember hearing on the local radio news station was a daily "firing squad" count from Cuba, whose total eventually reached at least 900.
The "victims" were the former jailers and torturers from Batista's U.S.- and Mafia-supported military and police. They were taken to the beach each morning, tied to a post, and shot.
The U.S. was not anti-Castro as yet, I believe, so it was just reported as straight news. No emotional connotation was attached at that time.
The decades since have brought out so much more personal history of how such regimes treated their people, and that when they were overthrown, the surviving people made damn sure their tormenters were not going to come back.
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In a similar story, I always flash back to the scene from the film "Dr. Zhivago" where the St. Petersburg rich are enjoying a banquet on a snowy night, while the revolting populace gathers under the windows outside that palace.
The rich go the the windows, take quick peeks, and make sarcastic remarks about the "great unwashed" who feed and prosper them so mightily.
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Was our Republic the first to put an end to Monarchy? No, but it probably has had the greatest potential influence in that direction over the past two centuries.
OF COURSE the would-be monarchists would make an all-out effort to capture that Republic and turn it back to their ends.
We need to get back on track with the course that Tom J. & Co. put us on.