“The Divide” lays out detailed examples.Īs in his illuminating articles in Rolling Stone, Matt Taibbi reaches conclusions by combining relevant history and statistics with the experiences of real people, usually told in detail and with powerful effect.
Many readers already have the impression that the system of justice is unfair to poor people and people of color and that it favors the wealthy. The premise for “The Divide” is that our society has become “disturbingly comfortable” with a perverse system of justice where “rights aren’t absolute but are enjoyed on a kind of sliding scale.” The “rule of law has slowly been replaced by giant idiosyncratic bureaucracies that are designed to criminalize failure, poverty and weakness on the one hand, and to immunize strength, wealth and success on the other.” The foundation is “a profound hatred of the weak and the poor, and a corresponding groveling terror before the rich and successful, and we’re building a bureaucracy to match those feelings.”
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