For years, conservative billionaires have treated Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas to opulent vacations and trips on their private jets. If these were anything other than disinterested gifts, then they’re taxable — and Thomas owes the IRS a huge bill.
If the public reacts defeated, nothing will happen. If there is public outrage, there is a political cost and change might actually happen.
You are the public, your defeatism is self fulfilling.
So please try another comment, this one (even though you don’t want it to) supports abuse of power.
The belief that politics reacts to public outrage is also a mechanism of control by the system, when in reality it only offers up sacrificial, insignificant lambs like Santos, always keeping the actual power players safe.
If the outage we see over police killings hasn’t shifted our central government one iota (and it hasn’t; even Biden has been calling for MORE police than pre-George Floyd, nevermind Republicans), what do you think this is going to do?
Politics changes when politicians die and are replaced by ones who believe something else.
That’s what the people in power want us to think because it ferments fear which populist/fascist leaders take advantage of to claim their own power.
Real, lasting change is incremental change powered by passionate and peaceful people