And I want people to grab their pitch forks, yes, and be unruly. Get in the streets. Be as noisy and as nonviolently provocative as you can be. And stop the politicians from going down that road.

I am glad that Greider is still optimistic about traditional peaceful forms of protest and manifestation.  I pray he is right.  But since reading this morning's Salon, I am starting to worry he may not be.  Especially when I remember how absolutely irrelevant the huge anti-war demonstrations were right before the U.S. invasion of Iraq.

Truth unfolds in time through a communal process.