Josh Marshall has a great term for what is happening in Oregon: white privilege performance art. We have people engaging in armed insurrection over the vast oppression of being asked to pay a small fee when grazing their animals on public land; surely an important part of the story is the fact that the perpetrators know that they won’t face the consequences that would follow if, you know, some nonwhite group pulled a similar stunt — and they’re be Fox News heroes forever after.
Paul Krugman, Deadly Snits
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This is a missed opportunity for the radical movements on both sides to come together and do something useful for once – abolish the travesty that is mandatory sentencing.
The fact that even someone I respect as much as Paul Krugman only sees it through a partisan lens only shows what tragedy the U.S. politics has become.
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