The Russian Revolutionaries had no plan for what would replace the autocracy. They were simply committed to its destruction. The core of their belief was nihilism. They knew they would not live to see stability, but that the only real route to change was to erase the whole thing and start over. Russia did not go from Revolution to Soviet Union overnight. There were years of bloodshed before Lenin, with the help of Stalin and Trotsky, consolidated power by destroying the local revolutionaries that did not kow-tow to Moscow. The Revolution was not a single coordinated act, but a massive, pervasive upheaval in many places all at once, and so beyond the capacity for the autocracy to quell.

These tea baggers appear to be practicing for the same type of upheaval sometimes, but they fail to see past what will happen once they bring it all down and how horrific that will be. Nor do they realize how difficult it will be to replace it. To this day, Russia has nothing nearly as powerful as was the autocracy before Nicholas II took the reins and drove his royal carriage over the cliff. We avoided a similar fate when Bush left office, but we reamin very close to the edge. How far from that edge can Obama take us? I'm simply glad we appear to be putting distance between us and the edge despite these tea baggers demanding we turn Right.