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[Dean_the_Young]

The root of all evil in this universe, or at least the source of all obstacles, nearly always comes from 'politics.'

'Politics' is the dirty word in the history of this galaxy, even more than 'Reapers.' If it weren't for 'politics', after all, we'd all do the blatantly obvious thing and join forces against the Reapers... and all those other pesky problems that take clear-thinking, straight-talking, honest (military) types to resolve simply and effectively. If a soldier-type can't solve a problem, it's because politicians are holding him or her back from doing their job.... and if a politician actually does something good, it's because a military type pushed them to it.

Just think about it, ladies and gentlemen. How often have you had to go out of your way to get the tools you need to do you job, simply because the damn bureacrats only gave you star charts from 2183? How often has it been the politicians holding you back from solving your problems, and how many times has it been politicians who cause them in the first place, and then refuse to acknowledge them? Ilos, Horizon, any time 'the Terminus' has been raised.

Hell, the only reason we stand to lose the war against the Reapers is because the damn dumb bureacrats have stuck their head in the sand for the past few years, rather than building weapons.

Who recognizes problems? Who solves them? Who gets things done? Military types do, that's who. Politicians refused to recognize the dangers of Saren? It took a military ship willing to mutiny in order to beat him. The Krogan threaten to surpass the genophage? The STG, not politicians, solve the problem. The Rachni overrun the borders? It took soldiers, not 'statemen' to stop them. And just who does a better job at managing piracy: Turian patrols, or Asari 'soft power'?

History is clear. To solve galactic problems, it isn't 'politics' that have succeded. 'Politics' is the problem. You want something solved, ask a good soldier.

Eveyone else? The rulers, the civilians who rule these fine military men and women?

They're useless, nearly treasonously so. All of them. The Council doesn't want to admit there's a problem, and is too afraid to move. The Asari are decadent democracies, content in their veneer of civility even as they alone on the Council continue slavery, unwilling to face facts of galactic society and militarize. The Salarian daltrasses play their intrigue, and leave the real work to the woefully undersized STG. And let's not start on the Alliance parliament, with bigots and corporate-interests calling the shots.

There's only one species that even somewhat does it right: the Turians, where citizenship is measured in the merit of blood shed, years spent in service, and in which service is a precondition. The Heirarchy doesn't cause problems: it solves them. And the Heirarchy doesn't solve them by talking: the Heirarchy employs the only true problem-solvers of the Mass Effect galaxy, the military. They aren't afraid to do what it takes.

The Turians are strong because not only they are willing to bomb their foes back into the stone age, but because after then they annex the defeated, incorporate them, raise them into something of value as new soldiers for the Turian imperialism. And the galaxy will survive the Reapers, IF it survives the Reapers, because of that sort of strength. The galaxy needs more militaristic, imperialistic powers, not less.

The galaxy won't be saved by a Matriarch's philosophy, or a Daltrass's scheme. It will not be saved by the appeal of decadent democracies, or corporate greed.

The salvation of the galaxy will come from the barrel of a gun, a gun held by soldiers. We need that soldier. We need many of them.

The Council has failed. Democracy has failed. Communism has failed. Corporatism has failed. All the other methods have failed. There is only one effective form of power in this universe, and we need it.

Draft your politicians. Occupy your bureacrats. The galaxy needs strong leadership. Leadership with integrity, purpose, and ability, long held back by politics. We need a galaxy run by the military, for the military, and of the military, if we are to have any chance against the Reapers.

Fascists of the galaxy, unite!

[Stanley Woo]

No real-life political discussion, please. Thank you.

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