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Plutocracy and Panera

two well-heeled gents sitting behind me at Panera. Says the one to the other: “it’s too hard to get a photo ID, but we’ll sit out front of the Apple store in a tent for three days waiting for the new iPhone. That’s what’s wrong with America.”

Listen here, tough guys. It’s not the people who camp out at the Apple Store that I’m worried about. It’s the people who camp out under the Eighth Street Bridge, or in the basement of the manse at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, or clandestinely in city parks, in rain, in bitter cold. Yesterday, the Court said that suffrage is an absolute right. Clearly, it’s the only one we all have in common.

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About Christopher Cocca

Christopher Cocca is a Pennsylvania-based writer and community organizer. His fiction and creative nonfiction have appeared in Brevity, elimae, Pindeldyboz, Geez Magazine, Creative Nonfiction, Generate, and elsewhere. He earned a Master of Divinity degree from Yale Divinity School in 2005 and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing (fiction) from The New School in 2011. He helps lead the Air Quality Partnership of Lehigh Valley - Berks and is the Associate for Urban Mission at FPC Allentown. Opinions expressed on-line are solely his. Quotation does not equal endorsement, except for when it does.

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