It's really interesting to see what happens when you touch a nerve. What happened to Ben Swann really epitomizes what Bernie Sanders has been trying to tell us all along: real meaningful change has to come from the bottom up.

Ben Swann touched a nerve that affects the highest levels of power, else who could shut him down? He was certainly brave in his reporting, but perhaps, for the powerful, there is too much shame in having this story revealed.

As the change required to arrest the pedophile network, I think it must start from the bottom. From a child rearing standpoint, I have some ideas of how this could happen, but it's going to take a generation (maybe two) to effect the change we'd like to see: an end to pedophilia and like kinds of child abuse.

As to the political change, I've been looking at a wide range of ideas, and I'm becoming convinced that working from within the system isn't going to be very effective. I'm reading more about voluntarism (there's a lot of writing about that here) but still haven't learned enough to see how it can effect changes in response to pizzagate and other similar scandals.

Thanks for your article. I had no idea all this was going on.