As I have written before, I subscribe to The Economist but have mixed feelings about it. The magazine (or the 'newspaper' as it prefers to style itself) has a lot of good info and a droll and erudite style that is generally fun to read, but has gone a bit off the rails recently, particularly in regards to covering Politics in America. For a long time, its writers seem to have had a man-crush on Mitt Romney, endorsed Obama only reluctantly last year, and in their most recent editorial on the President, seemed gripped by the delusion that the deficit was the most pressing problem the country faced (nothing about long term unemployment, stagnant wages, economic inequality, the hollowing out of the middle class etc etc)
So It is with mixed feelings that I highlight last night's entry in "Democracy in America" about a racist Georgia cracker sheriff and his lizrd-brained reaction to the executive orders that might actually make America a little safer. Well, it is good ammunition for progressives anyway.
Besides, for all you Georgians, who may be reading this, it is why strenuous efforts are worthwhile to turn the state blue, or at least purple. C'mon Bulldawgs, I know you can do it.
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