Ghandi did it without firing a shot. So did Reagan. Both walked in the truth, and both won the battle.
Reagan didn’t fire a shot, because he built so many of them TO fire.
I'm probably going to piss someone off, but here goes.,
Reagan didn't do "it". If he had we would not be here now, fighting back the socialists.
Reagan successfully fought the cold war, for which I am ever greatful. He did not take on the domestic front. It is the American Bolsheveks who are in control now, in part because Reagan was unable to defang them. They continued to control all the levers of power: the press, the universities, the CFR, the big banks.
Gandhi succeeded only because the British were tired, and essentially a fair and compassionate people. The idea of "the White man's burden" was finished. The philosophic underpinning of the Empire had fallen away.
Did you watch the signing ceremony? The are strong in their beliefs and ideology, those Communist bastards. They control the levers of government and culture, even more so than they did at the time of Reagan.
A better anology might be the fall of the USSR. There were still true believers, but much of the venom had been boiled away by then. Of course most of the courage, beauty, strength and history of the Russian culture had been lost too.
We can take that course. But, are we willing to wait 100 years and things slowly grind down, every year worse than the last, until finally the pathetic hulk of the United Socialist States of America collapse, leaving our descendents sitting in Ruins, as the Russian people were circa 1990?
Ghandi was dealing with a moral British Emphire that, in time, would have granted Indians their Freedom. Look how badly Ghandi’s daughter ruled and she was a direct product of Ghandi’s non violent philosophy......
Ronald Reagan was leading a moral US and was the titular leader of the Free World..... against an evil Soviet Union lead by a moral Gorbachov...who realized that Communisum could not prevail in a test of will’s (and Economies) with the rest of the world, and contrary to the welfare of it’s own citizens.
Obama is an evil man with a communist upbringing/education/ and career. The very nature of his administration will begin the violence when they realize the scale of the opposition against their “Transforming” agenda. It will, of course, be reported as a “racist” event by “right wing rareactionaries.” You only need to read the comments on KOS or DU to know that the left has no compunction to refrain from violence to further it’s agenda.