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Bait and Switch: The Heavy Price of Social Progress

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"And that process leaves us with a picture that oddly resembles modern South Africa. Enfranchised blacks in dire straits, with no political party representing their interests. A well-tanned imperial elite doing fabulously well. The government doing little to help the poor, but plenty to enable the rich. And when the complicit politicians and court journalists get a free minute, they step forward with poetic odes to another fallen champion of the underclass -- even as they quietly celebrate the renewal of mass delusion and the injustice of the status quo."

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