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MLeake · January 4, 2013, 01:14 PM

Whether armed revolution would be feasible isn't even the point. The point is that the possibility exists, remote and ill-fated as it might be, and that in itself forms some check against the political elite.

I am not advocating armed revolution. I am advocating that its possibility does serve a potentially useful part in a detente of sorts.

January 4, 2013, 01:14 PM	#139
MLeake Senior Member Join Date: November 15, 2007 Location: Outside KC, MO Posts: 10,128	Whether armed revolution would be feasible isn't even the point. The point is that the possibility exists, remote and ill-fated as it might be, and that in itself forms some check against the political elite. I am not advocating armed revolution. I am advocating that its possibility does serve a potentially useful part in a detente of sorts.