So then you discuss how to tackle the problems within America. How to organize, how to make the "elites" listen to you.
Get rich, give donations?
Get guns, throw molotovs.
Or just acknowledge that your first step isn't getting at the elites, it's the average middle American Tea Partyer who is adamantly opposed to voting in their economic self interest. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but that's a discussion for another thread.
Interestingly, it was the US that played a large role in
funding the uprising in Egypt before it
abruptly turned around and cut off this support. Now it seems like the US has given up on Mubarak but it is looking for a managed transition in Egypt on its own terms. Egyptians have been promised an election within the next six months, but people in the opposition are saying this is not nearly enough time to establish strong opposing parties and adequate democratic institutions. It seems to me like Egypt is headed the way of Russia after 1991, with heavy foreign support combined with clever political maneuvering and government media control to ensure the survival of the regime. The IMF and, indirectly, the United States eventually lost what control it had over Russia once they were able to pay off their debts, but they did succeed in influencing policy during the 90s and preserving the Yelstin regime from populism.
