Jimmy Dore is right, of course, that the Times are ripe for Revolution--

But so have they been for a very long time in this country, with its deliberate subversion of democracy by the powers of large land-owners, vested financial interests, and the autocratic centralist authority of the Federal Government since the days of its founding.  How, to begin with, did we lose unicameral legislatures (proposed by Benjamin Franklin)?  Whence comes this otiose, inherently corrupt parody, of the ancient Roman Senate and the English House of Lords, which is the "upper house" of American state and federal bicameral legislatures?  Why, for that matter, have we a president, and not simply a speaker for our parliamentary houses of commons? And, to speak of the unspeakable, what evil genius saddled us with the Electoral College?  It occurs to me that, once the Battle of Yorktown had established our independence, a secret benevolent society (of which there are many examples in the 1780's) might have finished the business of our revolution with the assassination of, say, John Adams, George Washington, and a dozen or so other notable absolutist Protectors of the Rights of Property (but not, of course, James Madison, whose Bill of Rights we would always need)--in whose absence, a much freer confederation of the states, not unlike the  Delian League in the Age of Pericles, might have been joined together, which might, from the first, have permitted the states to position themselves as slave-holding states Vs. non-slave-holding states.  And how many heavy heaps of misery of 19th century American History might that not have prevented?

Speaking of avoidable disasters which were made infinitely worse by refusing to avoid them, what was the American Civil War but a kind of Revolution in which the Wrong Side won?  But of course, states have a right to dissolve their attachments to one another and to secede from one another, and no state, ever, has a right to invade another. If only Lincoln had been assassinated four years earlier: Some 750,000 young men's lives might have been spared; the American West would have been settled earlier, as independent republics; and the tsunami of poor, wretched refuse from eastern and southern Europe (not to mention Ireland) which inundated the United States in the latter half of the 19th century would have been kept from our pristine shores.