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Reich's liberal vision--a leaner but more activist government--was abandoned by the president who promised to implement it, leaving Reich frustrated and powerless.
The powerless become exquisitely sensitive to the insults of modern society: copy machines that jam, drivers who cut them off in traffic.
As a result, the English parliament enacted the Penal Laws of 1704, which disenfranchised the Catholic Irish; their purpose was to keep the majority of Irish poor and powerless.
The Forces of Darkness are so powerless that they're reduced to hanging around their headquarters in Rome, listening to the befuddled Los Angeles cops on a police scanner.
The pragmatist's case against President Clinton--as opposed to the moralist's--is premised on the notion that he's powerless, so disgraced and mistrusted that his presidency is finished politically if not chronologically.