I'll give Ben one star. He probably never thought that America would come to the situation it now finds itself in. He should have looked at the lessons of the past. The prime motivating factor in all of human history has been the lust for power. He who has that power rules. The average citizen has no choice but to follow the ruler's wishes. The average citizen can rebel, but after the dust settles, the lust for power still exists. And eventually the powerful prevail once again. Power today resides in the hands of those who control the wealth. It has nothing to do with political parties, really. The late George Wallace spoke the truth when he stated "there's not a dimes worth of difference between the Democrats and Republicans". Political parties, however, are very good at convincing the people that they have same say in their governments. Which of course suits the real powers in this country: the super-wealthy. The frightening fact is that, apart from revolution, which is what Ben's generation did, there is no other way to change this system of power. But the joke on the human race is that, even if you overthrow this system, and take power to yourself and to your fellow revolutionaries, and you then become the power, you also begin to lust for more power. And then one day you realize that you have become like the thing you most despised. And the next generations suffer because you didn't learn one important fact. And that fact is that you did not learn the lessons of the past. That is the prime lesson of history: mankind does not learn from the mistakes of the past, and is therefore condemned to repeat them. Over and over, so long as the world shall exist. If you could change human nature, you could solve all the world's problems. But the sad fact is that you can't change human nature. You can control your own nature, but you can't actually change it. Most don't even bother to try.