So when you ask someone to help get this government under control and they answer you with something like "There's not a damned thing I can do about it." Or "I'm powerless!" ask them how powerless the people sitting in the Duma building in the early 90's felt when tanks stated lobbing shells at it. Better yet, ask them how they thought that the people walking aimlessly in shattered burned out cities in Germany felt as they watched their daughters pairing off with Soviet or Allied soldiers so that they could help feed their families. That's powerlessness, the kind of powerlessness that changes people forever, like when people that survived Hiroshima opened their eyes and found that their city had disappeared.
This isn't a game. Maybe it's a game to Michelle Bachmann or Rick Perry. Maybe it's a game to people watching the story of "Seal Team Six" on the military channel. It probably felt like a big game to the Germans until the second winter of the Stalingrad siege. This isn't a game. There are no do-overs. We can either get it right now and fix this overwhelming problem of a government out of control, or make plans for when it crumbles, it's up to us. It always has been" today isn't any different than yesterday.
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