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monopolists; farm-subsidy programs have been exposed as benefiting the
richer operators while dispossessing tenant farmers and sharecroppers;
the urban renewal program seems to be aggravating rather than alleviat–
ing the housing problems of low-income groups; civil rights legislation has
added to the sheaf of paper promises without making any notable dent
in existing inequities; the poverty program begins to look like one more
example of the fallacy of treating symptoms as
if
they were causes; and
the traditional hostility between big government and big business has
given way to a cozy partnership whereby the two enterprises have be–
come almost indistinguishable in interest.
The result of these-and other-experiences is disillusionment with
government, with the honesty of its intentions and, far more dishearten–
ing, with its ability-even
had
it the best will in the world-to accom–
plish needed reforms. Thus Paul Booth, national secretary of SDS has
recently said, "Real change doesn't come from bureaucratic liberal in–
stitutions, or from legislature. Laws always get passed, but the poor are
still poor." SNCC as well as SDS has shifted to "localism," to community
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