Cash to the poor: Giving money directly works surprisingly well

Re:Cash to the poor: Giving money directly works surprisingl... by logn on Monday October 28, 2013 @06:51AM (#6626218)

> And if you're American, then it would be doubly great because we haven't seen any political revolutions in America since its founding (though if you're American you probably won't, because Americans like complaining about their government and alienating themselves from it, but they tend to do very little to improve it; at the end of the day, they're just too docile).

Some notable events in American history:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibition_in_the_United_Stat...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_history_of_the_United_St...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_rights_movement

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Re:Cash to the poor: Giving money directly works surprisingl... by pron on Monday October 28, 2013 @07:01AM (#6626246)

I didn't say "no notable events". I said no political revolutions (although the civil war almost counts).

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Re:Cash to the poor: Giving money directly works surprisingl... by adventured on Monday October 28, 2013 @10:16AM (#6627028)

If the US Civil War doesn't qualify as a political revolution, then I would argue nothing possibly could.

It started as a political argument in fact. It was about how to govern, and what rights the states possessed as part of the United States. Every aspect of the Civil War and its outcomes were political in nature.

It was absolutely a political revolution first and foremost. The war settled the political dispute.

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