Sad, but true. Yet I want to believe that not all, not even most, of those who embrace the demented ideologies of empire are unreachable and must be viewed (like so many of those in power who resolutely view us not as their fellow citizens but as their enemies) as our adversaries. But that’s where our hard work of listening and being heard and building understandings among ourselves as “the rest of us” begins, right? Not in speaking truth to unreachable power, but in working through our differences to reach a common agenda, to recreate our solidarity in opposition to power as a human community.