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The people of Georgia seem to be about as effective at protest as we are.

Used to be that governments just about everywhere paid attention to protests and made some accommodation to get that blot off their landscapes, but I guess that was just a short window in history or something. And, of course, you have places where mass protest really is more effective because the protesters aren't willing to just go home, denied. They press it until the offenders coöperate, or are ousted, but, well, this involves quite a bit of pain, and not infrequently loss of life, to accomplish. Power does not cede itself unless it is forced, forced as in the use of violence or the strong likelihood of violence being used on it by dint of sheer numbers. It doesn't just go, oh, they don't like what I'm doing, I guess I better stop. That just never is the way it goes. Power wants power over that too.

So even though the evil jackass tool, Saakashvili, is thoroughly reviled in Georgia, and they protest in big numbers all the time, he just says, nope, yer stuck with me till 2013 and, uh, for some completely opaque reason that seems to hold. No, really. So shortly after the huge success of our American-backed Rose Revolution, suddenly the people are completely helpless? Is that right?