text: So what?  We won't do anything about it because we're afraid to do anything about it.  If you think your way all the way through what would have to be done to effect substantive change in the method of governance to which we consent, you must inevitably arrive at the immutable truth that Mao Zedung articulated many decades ago.
  
  It's a very inconvenient and unpleasant truth that the G&M has expunged when I quoted it verbatim in the past, so I will only say here that it has to do with the ultimate source of political power.