The masked and booted troopers on our streets are showing us our secret faces, our innermost selves. Maybe this time we'll change. Maybe we'll demand the death of empire and the birth of community. One thing's for sure: If we don't, this world will get even darker and uglier. And someday, when our children ask us why we failed them, we'll have to tell them the truth:
It was easy.
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