and this is part of a larger problem that david serota calls the authority bias authority bias meaning the government and institutions says somebody did something and they must have done it and what's strange about it is that this is a country that in one way in the american psychosis i don't trust the government can do any around town trust anything the government says and yet at another level at the very same time that that's the dominant rhetorical paradigm in our politics there is this authority bias where when the government accuses somebody of a crime or says somebody is a a wrongdoer we're flexibly millions and millions of americans thing. it must be true for you to go you're not there for your honor thank you very well you're not beholding would you like to be placed under arrest you're not allowed to arrest me . and so if you're innocent and you find yourself in prison it's hard to have any hope at all. a year later my client grabbed another woman and knifepoint and less sentenced to 6 years for armed robbery but other than those his father nobody had connected my client to th

and this is part of a larger problem that david serota calls the authority bias. meaning the government and institutions says somebody did something and they must have done it what's strange about it is that this is a country that in one way we americans. trust the government. the government says at another level at the very same time that that's the dominant paradigm in our politics there is this authority bias where when the government accuses somebody of a crime or says somebody's a wrongdoer flexibly millions of millions of americans think it must be true for you to go you're not there for your honor thank you very dear how. would you like to be placed under arrest you're not allowed to arrest me. and. it's hard to have any hope at all. a year later. he had connected to the. other inmates. another wrongfully convicted man. member reading. in the magazine. people who they've been wrongfully convicted. to write about. it was reaffirming to me i was on the right path because even though he had been exonerated he was still looking for a. given. no matter how long

kind of put that chipping away on overdrive but journalist i want to point this out journalist david serota writes that ultimately what the g.o.p. wants is an entire american workforce that is legally barred from suing employers financially punished for refusing to return to unsafe work places and unable to call the workplace cops when lives are put in danger that's frightening because that is kind of the corporate idea we're allowed up here to do whatever we want you work for us we pay you so you are then obliged to do whatever we say while the g.o.p. is treating workers like cogs in a wheel they don't see them as human and they are a. means that manufacturing only so this isn't surprising but it is really frustrating because it also you know it breaks the back the unions as well because the top administration in g.o.p. has consistently tried to strip them of their rights as well so that's typically the last stand for workers who really are trying to get their voices heard i hope that as we turn this i hope that at some point when this country starts turning around we start actually doing