This is a great piece, and it puts most coverage of Malheur to shame. The one pang I feel after reading journalism like this is that it will not reach the peopl

This is a great piece, and it puts most coverage of Malheur to shame. The one pang I feel after reading journalism like this is that it will not reach the people it should. It may increase our understanding of them, but it doesn't increase their understanding, nor our ability to reach them and steer them away from the cliff edge of, in this case, divesting public lands. It's an old play, in a way: Vast, shadowy private interests manipulate the lumpen to demonize the only institution that can stop them, the government, in order to hack away at the general welfare and the public good. The Bundy's are just sock puppets for the Kochs and other barons amassing fiefdoms at the people's expense.