It was civil disobedience that won them their civil rights.
Proximity to power has an unsurprising ability to mutate a politician's spinal cord into bright yellow jelly.
This is the permanent tension that lies at the heart of a capitalist democracy and is exacerbated in times of crisis. In order to ensure the survival of the richest, it is democracy that has to be heavily regulated rather than capitalism.
It is hard to talk about a middle ground for something that is a fundamental right.
Monotonous talk of the end of American hegemony, the universal cliché of the period, is mostly a way of avoiding mounting a serious opposition to it.
That natural disasters are required to provide Americans with a glimpse of reality in their own country is an indication of the deep rot infecting the official political culture.
