“‘How long won’t you stand for injustice?’ asks Brecht’s Mother Courage. If you’re going to get tired after half an hour, she advises, or after a week, or after a month, you might as well leave right now.”
Elaine Scarry in 2008 on the imperative of addressing crimes through law, not just elections:
bostonreview.net
Presidential Crimes
The crimes of the Bush administration must be addressed through legal instruments, not simply through the electoral repudiation of bad policy.