“When Americans are in need. Americans pull together and we are one country." President Trump’s words ‘honoring’ victims of September 11 th 2001 and the lashings of Irma and Harvey, have all the tawdry familiarity of last year’s Halloween costume. You have to feel for comfy politicians faced with yet another random catastrophe visited on the hoy polloi by the God ‘in whom we trust’. “Mar-a-Lago is fine. Your house got blown away. What can I say?” What indeed, when your one ‘America’ is being torn apart by enduring political and economic forces that make Irma shrivel to a storm in a tea cup? While the largely white affluent chuckle their way to the bank, prisons burst with impoverished Afric...
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