Consumers obsess over inflation; like egg prices topping $4; but barely notice a green card holder’s arrest for peacefully criticizing Israel. The contrast is sharp: grocery hikes since 2022 spark loud gripes; while a free-speech crackdown gets muted shrugs. Eggs hit wallets daily; tracked by CPI; the detention feels remote; abstract. Economic woes drown out systemic overreach; showing how personal costs overshadow eroded rights.
Egg Prices Soar, Free Speech Sinks
Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication and WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a contributor to Centerclip and co-host of "The TMI Show" talk show. He is a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "2024: Revisited."
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Yeah, pretty much. That’s democracy for you: its main advantage over other forms of government is that it makes it harder for the government to act against the self-perceived interests of the majority. But something that only impacts a minority is easy enough to slip by unless the majority is somehow convinced that it concerns them too. Grocery prices affect everyone in practice; crackdowns on free speech may affect everyone in theory, but how many would actually consider themselves likely to run afoul of them, if they even think that such a crackdown will be extended beyond the obviously anomalous and nasty “anti-Semites”?
I’m curious if ted rall would consider it a peaceful protest.If people were outside his house screaming, that ted rall doesn’t deserve to live?
That’s literally what this university green card holder, was saying Except he was saying, zionists don’t deserve to live.
Or a more accurate analogy, suppose ted rall had two guest in his house and one was screaming the other guest doesn’t deserve to live.
Would he request the murderous guest to leave?
That is really all that’s happening to this green card holder.
He’s an impolite guest in the usa and he’s being asked to leave.