Oh, we no longer haul our kidnaped and manacled slaves from across the ocean to labor on U.S. plantations. Instead, we now ship raw materials to contractors for sweatshops overseas, in nations without human rights. Bush and the Republicans, because it's no secret where their allegiances lie. Now the Democrats, those erstwhile so-called defenders of social justice and human rights. They're less direct.
People are content.
I brought my Nader sign to a sparsely attended local Gore-Lieberman rally and was told I had to leave, was threatened with arrest if I refused. I learned about a speaker at a Democrat rally in Oregon who was reported to have told her audience to do whatever it takes to coax Naderites back to the fold, even if it means ending friendships and breaking up families. I read about a Milwaukee family who were allegedly arrested and jailed for refusing to stop tabling for Nader on their own front lawn across the street from a Gore rally. That is evil. Spiritual and psychological violence.