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Like justice.
And until we learn how to make real demands - and impose consequences when those demands are not met - we will continue to be strangled to death by the governing elite.
As much as Salon's readership would like to believe otherwise, the civil rights struggle was not waged by writing letters to newspapers or legislators. People risked their lives, and sometimes lost them, in the pursuit of social justice. Cities had to burn before the governing elite began to contemplate the distasteful reality that citizens who are perpetually fucked will not accept slavery indefinitely.
For every injustice imposed on the citizenry, there must be a cost associated with it.
There are no consequences for today's political operators. Until that changes, we have no basis whatsoever for expecting anything other than naked tyranny.
