Arguably the biggest story leading up to Election Day has been the plight of Peanut the squirrel and Fred the raccoon. As many know, both these tame rescue animals were seized from their owners in a shock-and-awe raid last Wednesday and killed by New York State authorities. Making the story far bigger is that Peanut, sometimes spelled P’Nut or PNUT, was a social-media star. (His Instagram account has 540,000 followers. This means he has more political influence in death than I do in life!)
Of course, some may say this is overblown. How many human beings, after all, are murdered on any given day due to bad government policy? In reality, though, the outrage is not only understandable from a human standpoint, but is justified by deeper issues involved.
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