Annals of the Insurrections

Arthur Silber:

Consider the opposing forces. On one side, a massively powerful surveillance State, which brutalizes, imprisons, destroys and kills by myriad methods those segments of populations, both foreign and domestic, that it designates as noncompliant, or threatening, or disfavored for whatever reason, or for no reason at all. The State imprisons, destroys and kills in vast numbers.

On the other side, you have members of those noncompliant, disfavored groups. These particular disfavored persons perform incendiary, revolutionary acts -- such as wearing a pair of stolen shorts a roommate brought home, or writing Facebook posts.

And a lot of people -- including many liberals, progressives and "dissenting" writers -- side with the State.

This is not only why we can't have nice things, it's why any revolution we have is going to be bloody.  We can't figure out which side we're on.  (Note to Mme. deFarge/Comrade Stalin wannabees:  I am not a Marxist.  Go away.)