Rolo Tomassi, Keyser Soze, and Kennedy’s Real Killer
A reformer struggles against the status quo. The status quo involves a complicated network of policies, Government agencies, social actors, dominant players, regulators, media, informal rules, formal and informal alliances of forces that benefit from the way things are - and what to keep things that way. Sometimes its easy to see how these networks protect themselves - like when they publish a position paper in national dailies. Sometimes they advance their interests in subtle but still public ways - for example, by sponsoring a politician’s “public service message”. Then there are times when act in ways that are not noticed by the general public, but obvious to experienced political observers. Reformists train themselves to see these subtle, informal methods. Most of us will not make much of these events, but some reformists would view these as attempts of entrenched networks to protect themselves: One fine day certain columnists, radio commentators and media personal...