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If liberals want all these fine things, the course is simple: organize 50 million workers who will go out on strike and shut down the profit flow until we have these things (or face a fascist reaction). If progressives can't organize the working class then it is we who are without a social function, not the conservatives or the politicians. Democracy isn't a game, it is a way to peaceably settle disputes between organized social forces. There is only one organized social force of any size in the US today, and that is the corporatocracy. They have sufficiently central coordination and highly organized fractions in every arena of American life. We have nothing but a sadly reified faith in "democracy," our cherished opinions, and some occasional good luck handed to us by a sudden extreme manifestation of our exploitation and subjugation.
