…the moderates are always, either consciously or unconsciously, working with the authoritarians and enabling their agenda. We are, according to those who want nothing more than to maintain control, supposed to protest enough, but not too much. Because we should rely on them. Because we need to maintain our subservient position under the party as opposed to in conversation and discourse with the party. Fighting a battle with a corrupt and immoral system while also adhering to the rules that were created, maintained, and enforced by the system on behalf of the system is an exercise in self-destruction.

From Authoritarian Occupation: Los Angeles and the Next Chapter of Our Lives by Jared Yates Sexton