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In reply to the discussion: Beware of People Pretending to Be on Our Side [View all]moniss
(4,237 posts)in the US shows that civil resistance does work. I guess you forgot about the Civil Rights Act, The Voting Rights Act, the end of the draft etc. as just some examples. You apparently think that these would have passed, or passed eventually, without the organizing and civil resistance. Additionally nobody is calling for an "uprising" other than a general strike type of civil resistance. But we can always keep going along the path of incremental change. Until things get so bad that it will finally sink in to people that the phrase "too little, too late" fits incrementalism perfectly. At that point I expect the vast majority of the country to begin to whine "Why didn't somebody do something?" Nero has been tuning up in the background for long enough and he has now approached the stage to perform. He will be joined by the piper so that the audience can be dazzled by a shiny bauble here or there while society goes to ruin. The time for being able to wait for major fundamental investment in the people has expired and shows clearly how incrementalism has failed. But some will be even more wealthy and powerful and the roads and bridges can be shiny and new as the rest all falls to pieces. Nero and the piper will be catching a ride out of town on a new super highway.