Episode 132: The House Always Wins  -  How Every Crisis Narrative Enriches the Security and Carceral State

<div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="emrm5" data-offset-key="25jqu-0-0"> <div class= "public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="25jqu-0-0">"It’s Time for a Domestic Terrorism Law," blares a <em>Washington Monthly</em> headline. "Tucson Police Helping Homeless with New Outreach Program," reports Tucson, Arizona’s ABC affiliate KGUN9. "Programs that monitor students' social media are seen as a means of heading off the next tragic shooting," says an article in GovTech. "How the Department of Defense could help win the war on climate change," explains <em>Politico</em>.</div> <div class= "public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="25jqu-0-0"> </div> </div> <div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="emrm5" data-offset-key="3j538-0-0"> <div class= "public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="3j538-0-0"><span data-offset-key="3j538-0-0">In the United States, it seems no matter what crisis emerges - the planet warming due to fossil extraction, QAnon white nationalists storm Capitol, mass shooting, substance abuse crisis, a surge in homelessness - the response from our pundit, think tank, and political classes is always, almost without exception, to frame the response in terms that empower, embolden and - most importantly - fund preexisting carceral and militaristic responses.</span></div> </div> <div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="emrm5" data-offset-key="7tc31-0-0"> <div class= "public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="7tc31-0-0"> </div> <div class= "public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="7tc31-0-0"><span data-offset-key="7tc31-0-0">To fight the scourge of white nationalism under Trump and show we are serious about our anti-racism, the solution is</span> <em>apparen