MOVING THE GOALPOSTS

Brittney Cooper in Salon makes the very good point that as the middle class dwindles, the poor must be ever more brutalized–vide Kansas’s new law about how many amusements the most indigent must deny themselves–so as to give the ever-themselves-more beleagured middle class–or remnants thereof–the illusion that they remain in some way privileged–AND THUS KEEP THEM QUIET.