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>>>This is the modern American disease: vested interests see to it that privateering innovation is replaced by parasites sucking greedily and resisting change: and the only valid purpose for displacement of people or technologies is to send more life blood the parasite's way.
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>That's often true, but not inevitable.
>It's certainly been true with the health care system and it's been shamefully true with guns in the USA.
>We don't use the term "leadership" very often, but getting people to try to do things against seemingly overwhelming odds requires great leadership.
>For my generation, JFK embodied that idea.
>Reagan was the closest we've had since then.
>I had hoped that Obama would have it but that wasn't to be.
>We saw some flashes of it with Bernie and I hope that we haven't heard the last of him or his followers.

Johnson ?