For mass oppression and exploitation to finally end, social movements must seize upon government institutions and leverage them to change society itself. Electing African American, Asian American and Latino Americans who do not have this goal in mind will always be insufficient, and sometimes, counterproductive. A way to trick the masses into thinking hope and change is on its way within the contemporary political framework of bourgeois democracy and capital. More
![](http://web.archive.org./web/20220127155659im_/https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/1084136052_3760f21cb4_c.jpg)