| Indeed, and the democratic system of checks and balances exists largely for this reason, as do the individual political party 'machines'. This might be a question of degree- one person cannot foment a revolution, or even a radical change to such a fundamentally stable yet pluralistic system- and I, unlike Chomsky, would argue that is a good thing (damn dangerous things, those Revolutions). But can one person still be a spearhead for some real change, within the limitations above?
Only if he has a very popular mandate at grass roots level, I would think.
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