The Grand Inquisitor
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It seems that every time something comes along that either rapes the Constitution or increasingly invalidates it (like the new Compulsory Property Aquisition ruling, the invasion of Iraq, or the "War" on drugs...ect ect) people keyed into the political process and those of us here on THR say "well, this will end with lives lost", and, invariably, we are proven wrong.
What I am wondering is how far things will go before there will be massive protest movements (the protests opposing the Iraq war were great, especially the ones with 25,000 plus people, but there were only a few, and because of that, NOTHING happened) and large scale civil disobediance movements (including violence) here in the US.
It seems to me that the elite classes have tested the waters and are quickly realizing that the average citizen is so scared of be viewed as "unpatriotic" that no matter how far things go, the elite can do as they please at the expense of the peasant classes.
Opinions?
Lastly, Noam Chomsky relates that young people in the US constantly approach him at his speaking functions and ask him, "well, what can I do to help things get better", whereas in Turkey and other places in the developing world, young people *tell* him, "this is what I did to make things better". As a University student, I see people ages 18-30 in their natural enviornment (politically speaking), and while they talk a good game, most of them do jack sh|t to actually change the politcal process they rail against; case in point: most University students wet themselves for four years screaming how horrible a president GW Bush was, and they wailed and wailed about voting him out of office, but when November came around, people ages 18-24 were mostly absent from the polls. They were too "busy" to show up, and because of them, we're plagued with four more years.
What I am wondering is how far things will go before there will be massive protest movements (the protests opposing the Iraq war were great, especially the ones with 25,000 plus people, but there were only a few, and because of that, NOTHING happened) and large scale civil disobediance movements (including violence) here in the US.
It seems to me that the elite classes have tested the waters and are quickly realizing that the average citizen is so scared of be viewed as "unpatriotic" that no matter how far things go, the elite can do as they please at the expense of the peasant classes.
Opinions?
Lastly, Noam Chomsky relates that young people in the US constantly approach him at his speaking functions and ask him, "well, what can I do to help things get better", whereas in Turkey and other places in the developing world, young people *tell* him, "this is what I did to make things better". As a University student, I see people ages 18-30 in their natural enviornment (politically speaking), and while they talk a good game, most of them do jack sh|t to actually change the politcal process they rail against; case in point: most University students wet themselves for four years screaming how horrible a president GW Bush was, and they wailed and wailed about voting him out of office, but when November came around, people ages 18-24 were mostly absent from the polls. They were too "busy" to show up, and because of them, we're plagued with four more years.
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