I’m not saying it’s impossible to win, I’m saying it’s impossible to win within the system by using system members, because they have too much to lose.
Got it. I'd say this is exactly 180 degrees wrong. Revolutions, for lack of a better word, occur when you manage to split the ruling group. No revolution has ever succeeded against a united ruling group (incl. security forces), no matter how bad the circumstances were: not in 1930s USSR, not in Great Leap Forward China, not in Venezuela during the collapse.
Kevin McCarthy ^can never* agree to anything that he earnestly believes could destroy him.
They don't think that far ahead. Right now, he had to choose between a Church Committee (and some other concessions) and not being speaker, or having to throw in his lot with the Democrats. Clearly, he chose the first option.
'Destroy him' is overstated, but even if he believed that this would lead to the end of corruption in the future, it will probably not affect him.
Therefore, the fact that he agreed to “concessions” must also mean that none of these concessions are threatening, and as Trump’s term and the aftermath demonstrates, anything less than ripping out the roots of corruption is, at this point, swiftly undone.
Let's talk about the art of the possible though. I'd like to "rip out the root of corruption" as well, but it's simply not going to happen.
Got it. I'd say this is exactly 180 degrees wrong. Revolutions, for lack of a better word, occur when you manage to split the ruling group. No revolution has ever succeeded against a united ruling group (incl. security forces), no matter how bad the circumstances were: not in 1930s USSR, not in Great Leap Forward China, not in Venezuela during the collapse.
They don't think that far ahead. Right now, he had to choose between a Church Committee (and some other concessions) and not being speaker, or having to throw in his lot with the Democrats. Clearly, he chose the first option.
'Destroy him' is overstated, but even if he believed that this would lead to the end of corruption in the future, it will probably not affect him.
Let's talk about the art of the possible though. I'd like to "rip out the root of corruption" as well, but it's simply not going to happen.