The Absence of the Masses of the Public on Both Sides of This Event

CNN's John Defterios asks: Can politics really function in such sweeping historical ways without the involvement of the people being governed? He says it depends on the moment, if you think about three moments recently of violent political action or the threat of violentPolitical action in Russia. The coup against Gorbachev is much closer to a moment when Boris Yeltsin called for a popular uprising than this incident has been so far.