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In reply to the discussion: It is going to be a FUCKING REVOLUTION! [View all]Calista241
(5,586 posts)There's no leader of a movement to rally around and direct actions and policy like there was with MLK.
The United States would still be a part of the British Empire without men like George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Ben Franklin. African Americans would still be second class citizens and suffer under the Jim Crow laws without courageous men like Martin Luther King that led a movement. MLK, one of the greatest men in American history, was killed for trying to change America, and still the civil rights movement very nearly failed to become reality.
I know people here like to say Occupy and other such movements are led by the people and not a specific leader, but this is the real world and that's not how things get done.
I wish i could say i see real change in the future, but sadly I don't have the confidence many people here seem to possess. And I really don't think there will be any kind of armed revolution in the near future.