Tyee columnist Rafe Mair apologizes to Briarpatch contributor Chris Shaw

“The Soviet Union had a single, entrenched, systemically corrupt political party, which held a monopoly on power. The United States has two entrenched, systemically corrupt political parties whose positions are often indistinguishable and which together hold a monopoly on power. In either case, there is, or was, a single governing elite, but in the United States it organizes itself into opposing teams to make its stranglehold on power seem more sportsmanlike.
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 Dmitri Orlov, Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Example and American Prospects