Got to Stand For Something

In which Ezra Klein & his liberal ilk are raked over the coals. Powerful stuff, & absolutely worth reading.

 A.R. Moxon / The Reframe:
Eventually You're Going to Have to Stand for Something  —  Each day the king would emerge from his castle with his favorite princes and his most loyal soldiers and go into the city to kidnap a dozen of the citizens, some for his harem, others to be sold to far lands.  Any who opposed this practice were put to the sword.

This is only the latest declaration of literal war against the citizens of the United States by the President of the United States and his Defense Secretary, which I wanted to mention in case you are the sort of person who has been scolding everyone else that political violence is never acceptable. In fact, this sort would tell me that my use of the word "war" is polarizing and inciting, to which I say take it up with the President of the United States and his so-called Secretary of War.

And I cannot get over the degree to which Klein's response is emblematic of the politically-empowered white liberal response to this age of autocratic fascist abuse and violence, in his predictable rightward instinct and in his seemingly impenetrable assumption that, even though he admits he has no idea what the solution to our present situation might be, he is still just the person to deliver a solution.