They are going to be freed by a perverse new legal system, an ad hoc creation of progressive federal judges, assisted mightily by an Obama Justice Department rife with lawyers whose former firms and institutions spent the last eight years representing America's enemies.
The electorate responded to this Progressive power grab with the creation of the Tea Party, followed by a Republican landslide at all levels of government in the 2010 elections.
For cities to survive, we need a post-progressive approach in which the efficient creation of the common good is the shared goal of labor, management and citizens alike.