UCGal: What a great post. Somewhat ironically, most Americans seem to forget that we got our start fighting against the status quo ante and another group of elites: King George III and the British empire. We were also told to keep quiet and to play along and that it wasn’t for us to decide what was right: That’s what the “divinely inspired” King George was for.
I think things happen in cycles, and I believe we are in another such cycle, and not just here in the US. Regardless of ethnicity, religion or country, you are seeing protests on a massive scale, where entire populations are rising up against various rigged systems, be they political, economic or religious.
