Well, I wasn't arguing over 'who was worse' - I was merely commentating on who was more psychologically terrifying (to me), thus all the 'to me's and 'personally's strewn around in my posts. Arguing over which totalitarian dictator is 'worse' than another is obviously an exercise in futility, I'll agree to that, but I can still have an opinion as to which one scares me more.
The S*** is hitting the floor in America right now, a few militant groups are gearing up and training members for opening fighting against the government ya know.
In this day and age, I seriously doubt the chances of a violent revolution producing anything other than a country/countries run by gangsters. Militant groups like the ones you're mentioning should be opposed at all costs.
I agree with you that the state of our nation is not good. Political interests are separated by an order of magnitude from the everyday hopes and fears of the average citizen no matter what their political orientation happens to be, and the gap between upper and lower class is widening far too quickly for comfort. On top of that, the current government is making a lot of decisions I wouldn't consider wise, and I think their focus (both at home and abroad) is completely off-base and that they're ignoring the real problems (I'm a liberal, by the way, but I am rather disenfranchised with Mr. Obama and the Democratic party in general right now).
But I would stress that violent revolution is almost certainly not the answer to our problems. Violent revolution opens the floodgates to all sorts of potential futures that we might not even be able to imagine and probably wouldn't want to. If we have a revolution, it should be a peaceful one, a revolution of ideals. Remember that Ghandi was able to change the fate of his nation without ever inciting violence against any other human being.
I'm on my cell now, so somebody else, please report his frigging post.
I suspect this thread will be locked soon. Too bad.
Done.
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And I wouldn't suggest anyone else participate in this discussion further. Toady will almost certainly not appreciate this kind of discussion going on here.