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This was how expected the discussion to devolve.

However, I truly mean it; we need a political revolution, but without a complete cleansing of the body politic, nothing will happen. It is rotten to its very core. Our body politic has contracted a fatal, yet slow killing disease, It is incurable, save we excise large organs and replace them with new synthetic ones.

Mind you, I don't seeing Americans having the heart to do it.

It would require somebody understanding mob psychology getting some to sacrifice for the whole, but it will be a long drawn out death or a shorter very painful surgery and recovery.

All national politicians are no longer believers in anything, they work truly behind the scenes for matters we know not, then they spout rhetoric solely to rally the troops.

It would head them off at the pass, if we rendered all of them as proverbial eunuchs. Let hatred rise up and engulf them. It would catch them off guard. It would need to be so visceral that nothing could defend it.

However the very intensity of the emotion would necessarily turn off many who are uninitiated to political warfare. So it is at best implausible. However it would be fun to experiement at the local level with Rocky and perhaps with assorted others.

Machiavelli really understood the body politic. (PS I know this sounds crazy, just thinking through an idea, which will never be).