 It never works, always achieves the opposite result. Worse people** fill the niche.
A Morris-style counterrevolution would ruin the bad leaders while they are fully representing the niche, so that the leaders AND their goals are tainted by uniform distaste.
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So what would I do with my three Tardis wishes? I'd go back to 1946 and ruin the reputation of Roy Cohn,James Byrnes and Bernard Baruch. If those three men had become untouchable after they started to gain power, Deepstate would have been seriously delayed. The tripod of bankers, leftist activists and intel agencies would need to reset and start from scratch. Unlike Hitler, those three were ideally suited to their roles. Other players were less effective.
And if I had any power left after that, I'd stay in 1946 and jump to Detroit. I'd sway the minds of Studebaker's leaders toward an immediate merger with Nash, and I'd persuade Packard's CEO to switch from cars to corporate jets. With those two changes, the car industry would have remained competitive a lot longer, and the monopolistic idiocy of the big three might not have reached terminal coma in the '70s.
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** Footnote 1: Why are the new leaders inevitably worse? Because they WANT POWER more than the existing leader, who typically inherited his position. The revolutionaries WANT POWER enough to kill thousands of people for it.
Footnote 2: I'm not retrofitting my ideas onto Morris. His real behavior in the Paine incident gave me the idea. Briefly: Tom Paine was a violent criminal asshole who spread the genocidal plague of "rights" wherever he placed his bloody hands. After ruining this side of the Atlantic he moved to Paris where he used the brain-eating "rights" virus to create an even crazier tyranny. The Frogs, even though fully infected, got tired of Paine and put him in prison to await the chop. Morris was in Paris to negotiate our debts with the new government, and Paine begged him for rescue. Morris wrote an extremely pro-forma letter, basically implying "You asked for him, you got him. He's your problem." Since Paine had thousands of idiot Twitter followers in many countries, the Frogs were stuck with keeping him alive. Thus Morris undermined both Paine and France without killing anyone.
Constants and variables 92, Math vs Meth edition
Been watching the Everett TweakerCam lately.
These folks are always active, always doing things that seem purposeful at some level but have no overriding goal. 'Norma' is cleaning and sorting trash then tossing it back, or gardening in the pavement joints with a spoon. She pulls weeds conscientiously and systematically, leaving a clean expansion joint, then puts the weeds on her head for decoration.
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Now let's watch the ScientistCam for a while:
“For many physicists, the unexplained but seemingly special amount of dark energy in our universe is a frustrating puzzle,” says Salcido. “Our simulations show that even if there was much more dark energy or even very little in the universe then it would only have a minimal effect on star and planet formation.” And this, he suggests, implies that life could potentially exist in many multiverse universes – ironically enough, an uncomfortable conclusion.
“The multiverse was previously thought to explain the observed value of dark energy as a lottery – we have a lucky ticket and live in the universe that forms beautiful galaxies which permit life as we know it,” says Barnes.
These folks are always active, always doing things that seem purposeful at some level but have no overriding goal. Salcido is running equations on his computer, checking whether one delusion is caused by another delusion, and concluding that delusion 1 doesn't seem to affect delusion 2, which shouldn't have been a fucking surprise because delusions don't affect anything except your sanity. Both of these delusions were obvious nonsense from the start, but that doesn't stop Salcido. He weeds the expanding universe joints systematically, then puts the delusions in his publications for decoration.
So where's the variable? COST. The purposeless 