Having A Place Out Of The City

If You're Working On Better Conditions For Prisoners, If You Make That A Popular Issue And You Invite Mainstream Media To Weigh In On That Subject, You're Going To End Up With A Much More Regressive Public-policy Environment Than If You Approach It In A Quieter Way. It's Not Because The Public Is Stupid, It's Just That People With Only A Cursory Interest In Something Are Going To Have A Knee-jerk Reaction To It. That's Impossible To Explain In A Cable-news Media... It Doesn't Make Sense.

It Is Hard To Know What Sarah Palin Means In Republican Politics Anymore.

[tom Cotton] Is Known For His Efforts To Scale Back Legal Immigration. Legal. He Wants To Stop Legal Immigrants From Coming To This Country. That`s Very Popular In Republican Politics .

I Don't Want To Insert Myself Into The Story. I Just Want To Give A Useful Analysis Of It To Help People Come To Their Own Conclusions.

There Are Some Political Issues Where Mainstream Press Attention Only Hurts. We Think About Activism As Being This Generic Model Of Consciousness-raising, Then Hopefully Media Attention, Attraction Of New People To Your Cause, Building Public Support For Your Cause, Then Decision-makers Reacting To That Change In Public Opinion. That's True For Some Types Of Activism, But It Is Not True For All Of Them.