Dreams at the barricades

We cannot help dreaming of the barricades. They call to us, the comfortable middle class. We have comfort, aspirations, material expectations. We have power over others, governments that dare not offend us too much. The most powerful in the land are made in our image, whether the soft-spoken professional who leads us, the successful, driven lawyer that opposes him, or the former consultant who we expect will succeed him. But still, we dream of the barricades. When they go up, we want to be on the right side.

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