Most of the "Sagebrush Rebellion"/Bundy stuff is local oligarchs and their hired retainers trying to snatch the commons, it's...
Anonymous asked: Most of the "Sagebrush Rebellion"/Bundy stuff is local oligarchs and their hired retainers trying to snatch the commons, it's ridiculous to try and present it as some kind of grassroots popular cause. No different than Dow Chemical trying to dump poison shit in the rivers.
Yeah, but the resource extraction oligarchs are good at organizing their worker communities - the Appalachian coalfields, “Oil Sands Strong” in Alberta, “Timber Unity” in Oregon
the trick is you gotta work up enough momentum behind a land reform movement that you can blow through the fact that real Western land reform will require a change of the “prior appropriation” water rights