Much has changed—as Pierce suggests, with his link to a Birmingham News column commemorating the anniversary. Yet at the highest levels, we have this.
Disenfranchisement is one of the very best tools for destroying government in any sort of public interest. Absence of government oversight is very likely responsible for tanother bloody event this week.
In the aftermath of the devastation in Boston, Pierce writes of Massachusetts as—defiantly—a "Commonwealth"—
...there are limits to grief and there are limits to mourning. We will go back to being what we were before. We will return to our good public schools and our decent public parks. We will walk again for free in the woods and along the sea. We will place ourselves in the care of our decent health-care system. (Thanks again, Mitt!) We will pay again for our public servants and our first-responders, and some of them will game our systems, and we'll raise a great howl, and mock the suckers who got caught, but we will not be conned by the grifters who are trying to make a Mississippi of us all.
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