Ah, but it's so much easier for us to stand by the side of the road and complain that the emperor's clothes have the wrong fringe on the hem. Politics is boring

Ah, but it's so much easier for us to stand by the side of the road and complain that the emperor's clothes have the wrong fringe on the hem. Politics is boring, it's messy, it's tedious, and it demands compromise -- in other words, it takes a genuine and deep investment in time, effort and knowledge to shift any degree of change. (Me, I just comment on HN.) But, hey, Internet. Used to be you'd just write cranky letters that the Chronicle interns would auto-bin; today, you can catch the international media's attention, become the poster boy for clueless gentrification, and feed your startup's reputation into the dumpster fire, all in a few hours. Truly an age of miracles and wonders.