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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’ve posted a fair amount but there is a slow-rolling shock for me with this. Over time I’ve become leftist, I was once a “liberal” “progressive” Dem. I understand the most acerbic posters here telling us to collectively get our heads out of our bums to understand how power moves. And yet.

I am both inside and totally separate from some people who are occasionally in the rooms where it happens. I am used to being treated like a Cassandra or a dumbass by these folk. There’s something staggering in being more or less right, does anyone know what I mean? To have my essential distrust of the “good guys,” including the ones who are civil rights attorneys, having fled from big law, but are personally unsavory. They need the class system to remain extant for their own self-esteem, they need their kids in private all the way, they regard having low 8 figures all in in assets as basically broke as a joke. They will justify anything, and have revulsion over this story while celebrating let’s say the Harvey Weinstein conviction.

Anyway. It’s all shocking and I think it always will be, and beyond the concept of a Nuremberg style series of trials - what can one say. There’s value to not lying to ourselves about how people operate, though. There’s that.[/quote]

"Each act, each occasion, is worse than the last, but only a little worse. You wait for the next and the next. You wait for one great shocking occasion, thinking that others, when such a shock comes, will join with you in resisting somehow. You don't want to act, or even talk, alone; you don't want to 'go out of your way to make trouble.' Why not?-Well, you are not in the habit of doing it."
—Milton Mayer, They Thought They Were Free [/quote]

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