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Not a David Brooks fan but where is the lie here?
by wunderland 3y ago
Not a David Brooks fan but where is the lie here?
- mandmandam 3y ago> As a card-carrying member of my class, I still basically trust the legal system and the neutral arbiters of justice America's legal system is perverse and corrupt beyond belief. Mass incarceration in private prisons (and prisons that rely on private comanies), extreme racial disparities, illegal wars, completely inadequate legal representation, the absolutely fucked cost of legal representation,protected police brutality, global black sites, global surveillance, economic espionage, torturers destroying congressional evidence of their crimes getting huge promotions, supreme court bribes, complete corporate unaccountability, treating whistleblowers and environmental protesters as terrorists, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc. He's not factually wrong to say that "as a member of his class" he trusts this shit. But trusting it makes you a living lie. That said, he is making an important point re Trump supporters and their attitudes, which his class is happy to ignore (or exacerbate and profit from while making hand-wringing noises about how sad it all is) like all the above.