Once Again, Death of the Liberal Class

[The Stranger]

8. The problem with "holding him accountable" is that he faces an opposition that is better funded,

better organized, better coordinated, and fueled upon two of the most powerful forces in the world - fear and racism.

So let's say you try to "hold him accountable" and he doesn't come through. What then? Do you desert him and the power he has access to? And when next will anyone be able to effectively counter the better funded, better organized, better coordinated Right?

When Raphael had thus made an end of speaking, though many things occurred to me, both concerning the manners and laws of that people, that seemed very absurd, . . . —yet since I perceived that Raphael was weary, and was not sure whether he could easily bear contradiction, remembering that he had taken notice of some, who seemed to think they were bound in honour to support the credit of their own wisdom, by finding out something to censure in all other men’s inventions, besides their own, I only commended their Constitution, and the account he had given of it in general; and so, taking him by the hand, carried him to supper, and told him I would find out some other time for examining this subject more particularly, and for discoursing more copiously upon it.