Radical Reform Is The ONLY Path Forward For America

The protests taking place across the country right now have proven that sudden, radical reforms are the only option for many of the problems plaguing this country. The same is true for our broken healthcare system, our education system, and so many other broken parts of our country and our lives. We have to get radical about what's happening and the solutions, otherwise we'll continue this cycle of anger, rebellion, conformity, catastrophe. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins discusses this.

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So for the past two weeks, we've been hearing, uh, people talk about defunding the police throughout the United States. And a lot of people have met that, uh, with a ton of skepticism, right? People think that, Oh my God, we can't defund the police. Then, then it's going to be lawlessness here in the United States. Everything will be crazy. We're all going to die. They immediately go to those crazy overreactions, just like they do. When you say something like abolish ice. "Then how are we going to handle immigration?" And the answer is, I don't know the same way we did for, uh, the decades. And basically centuries we did before ice was created. I'm twice as old as ice. Okay. Ice is not something that's been around forever. Uh, ice isn't even old enough to drive a vehicle if it were a human being. So let's, let's, uh, that's the answer to that one. But anyway, the police, right, please have been around for a lot longer than that.

but I agree that it is time to defund the police. Now here's the thing, defunding the police. What does that mean? Does it mean we abolish police officers across the country? We just get rid of that profession. We get rid of all of these people and we replace them with some kind of a emergency response organizations. That's one thing, defund the police. Also, according to some people out there means we cut back the funding. And when people say, how the hell can you do that? There've been some brilliant responses of, well, if we came out and said, defund education, you'd be against that too. But that's what we've been doing for years now. So it's actually a thing that's already happened. We could just also do that to police, give them fewer resources to work with. However you want to slice it. You know, whichever one you want to go with here, it has to happen. We have seen systemic abuses by police officers across the United States for a hell of a lot longer than I've been alive. We learn about them in history books, folks. That's how up this group of individuals is radical change is the only option at this point. And radical change is the only option for a lot of problems here in the United States. And I think that's a realization that a lot of us have to come to, whether it's reforming the police, reforming healthcare, reforming colleges, addressing climate change, radical change has to take place. It has to be immediate. It has to be sudden, and it's gonna hurt at first,

but only at first, it's gotta be a tough transition. We're going to resist it for a bit and then it'll just become the new normal. And it'll be like, it's always been like that. That's just how things go. We humans beings, we are resistant to change and we need not be. That's holding us back from greatness here in the United States. But radical change is the only path forward. Otherwise we're going to be stuck in this endless cycle of, you know, a catastrophe, anger, rebellion, then conformity, and then a catastrophe and the anger and the rebellion. And then the rebellion dies down and it's back to conformity. We cannot keep with these cycles folks. They are counting on us, calming down. They are counting on us for getting about this and moving on to the next atrocity. It's basically what happens with mass shootings. That that's the, uh, uh, NRA tactic for dealing with mass shootings.