This last chapter makes an effort to engage with readers who may feel this book is too negative. I attempt to develop accounts of reform and revolution that overcome the arguments I laid out in the previous chapters. In the course of developing these accounts, further problems are revealed, and the scale of the challenges faced by would-be political actors is laid out in full. There are political obstacles, insofar as it is very difficult for a reformist movement to win a governing majority. But there are also economic obstacles, insofar as it is politically difficult both to govern capital through global and international arrangements and to govern capital by unilaterally disrupting the system of capital mobility. Meanwhile, would-be revolutionaries must contend with the fact that many of the same institutional and procedural dilemmas that afflict democracy also afflict alternative regime types. They must also overcome the fear that all alternatives to liberal democracy will produce authoritarianism and cruelty. Politics in the United States is a quixotic pursuit, but for certain kinds of people that only makes it more romantic. This chapter addresses such people directly. It concludes with an epilogue, outlining some of my academic influences and methodological commitments.