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I never said doing nothing will change anything.
Well at least you're paying attention. You didn't say that, I said doing nothing will achieve nothing. It was an invitation to prove me wrong.
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What I said was it would take an economic meltdown with an educated public for real change to happen.
That is your opinion, not mine. It certainly is not irrefutable fact, although you expect it to be accepted as such.
Apart from which you don't have an educated public and you're not going to any time soon.
In short, this just isn't going to happen, therefore it is irrelevant.
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I also said that you didn't matter and without the checks and balances, your vote is simply an endorsement of how the system works in its present form.
If you are correct (and I do stress the
if), then nothing will change come independence.
Except expectations will have been raised, just to be dashed. That is going to produce an angry and resentful population, which could end up doing just what you say is needed anyway. You might even get your baying mob on the streets.
This is what you fail to take account of. You can only see one scenario for your real change, when there could be others.
Now I'd be the first to tell you that this is unlikely, but no more so than your blinkered view.
In reality, I think you worry that an independent Scotland would avoid economic meltdown and somehow cheat you of your perceived result.
Let's face it, if you truly want what you call real change and you honestly believe that economic meltdown is the key to getting it, the last thing you'd want is a successful independent Scotland.
You really need to keep Scotland shackled to the UK's corpse if you are to achieve your goal.