while you were sleeping

Obviously, the only opposition to the current administration comes from Right-wing patriots. We are told this, repeatedly.

When this kind of thing occurs in New Orleans or Detroit it doesn't even get a blip on the main$tream radar screen. Or, perhaps it does as "disarray among the Democrats".

Glenn Ford:

When it comes to making President Obama accountable for his own wars, his own corporate pandering, his own trillion-dollar bank bailouts, the Black misleadership class becomes mute. But poor people's activists in New Orleans had no problem denouncing the president's housing policies, which ensure that "fat cats like Warren Buffett and huge private banking institutions will inherit the nation's public housing properties..."

Read it all, to get an idea what went on this summer, that most people never even heard.

And as my neoliberal acquaintances in the university always ask with a puzzled look: "but Warren Buffet's one of the good guys, right?"

...as if the wild west was full of black hats and white hats...