Sister Sage's Musings » Red State http://sistersagesmusings.ca Center-left blog from Canadians across the country and beyond Wed, 26 Jun 2013 03:36:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.2 Red state authoritarianism gone wild: Texas teen jailed for missing school http://sistersagesmusings.ca/2012/05/26/red-state-authoritarianism-gone-wild-texas-teen-jailed-for-missing-school/ http://sistersagesmusings.ca/2012/05/26/red-state-authoritarianism-gone-wild-texas-teen-jailed-for-missing-school/#comments Sat, 26 May 2012 23:47:04 +0000 Jymn http://sistersagesmusings.ca/?p=12456

This is what the US would be like with the new far-right Tea Party Republican party in charge. Canada under Harper is not that far off, either.

Red state authoritarianism, when combined with barely-veiled racism, is the new black (emphasis mine).

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