So you say your some kind of radical. And my question, is what kind of good are you? Being a radical, can you do anything really worthwhile for society? Or is ideology the be all, get all, for you?

If you look at all the revolutionaries in America's history, few were ever successful. Maybe they helped advance their cause in the short run, but they left little to be worked on after that single cause. They were quickly marginialized, and found themselves with little to no role in improving society.

After all, what happened to Sam Adams, for example, after the revolution? Not much, that effected American society, at any rate.

If you can't come to the way America works in pragmatic terms, you've always lost the battle. The mentality that things can't be changed, is a self-fufilling prophecy, you'll never change things with that attitude.

America is a procedural republic, and as such, procedure is the key to debate. If you can legimitize your argument by procedure, then your argument will be noticed, and you will be successful. But if your a radical, and reject societies insitutions, you've already lost the battle. Fighting isn't worth the effort.

That said, many self-styled radicals have brought change on the table, but it has been mostly by pragmatic grounds. They've found themselves in elected office or lobbying with hard facts, that give them power they never before had.