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to bring about any change without the revolutions that brought down the dictatorships. Decades of dictatorship made it impossible to use any democratic means of bringing about change.

But we do have the framework to change the way things are here. What would be way more effective, so long as we still have a process that could work if more people got involved politically, would be for the people to focus on local elections and on Congressional elections rather than on the Presidential elections.

To do that people will have to change they way they have contributed funds from giving them to their party leadership, to donating directly to candidates that THEY, not the Party, chooses. This has already begun to happen with the huge coalition formed before the last election.

Also we have to realize it will take a long time to get the changes we need since it took a long time to get to where we are.

But violent revolution is not the solution at all here and anyone promoting it at OWS events should be viewed with great suspicion imo.