Finally.

I wonder if our political and economic systems are so corrupt they can't be fixed. Not even a knight in shining armor can do it. Not even Barack Obama. Because eventually anyone who tries to clean up the systems will be swallowed. Like sinking in quicksand. The corruption and the greed will be too much to overcome. As a young man, I thought naively that an individual could trigger significant change. But that ain't true. Change may come. But it'll be ever-so gradual. And it doesn't make much difference whether a particular individual is alive or dead. Change in political and economic systems result from a cumulative effect. The same goes for social change, I suppose. Look at how long we had slavery in the USA. And even after the Civil War, basic civil rights were denied to blacks. For more than 100 years. And still there's discrimination. We're still plagued by racism. Changing laws don't automatically bring change and acceptance. Maybe America is on the road to a revolution. One that has been building for more than 200 years. Really, we knew from the very start, that slavery and the denial of civil rights to large segments of our population was wrong. Plain wrong. Morally offensive. But we lived with it. Maybe because one individual couldn't make a difference. Didn't matter. Until the scales tipped. And we decided as a society that we were ready for change. Finally. --Jim Broede