It feels like we are not so far removed from a quasi- consensus that our government(s) are legitimate. The simple idea that has been parroted and sold as a self-evident truth, that taxes are bad, that lowering taxes is good, that everyone wins...this was the ultimate sellout of the old, pre-Clinton DP, and the complicity of a purchased and owned SCOTUS.
Clinton obliterated any possibility of the DP ever reclaiming its root issues, so here we are, unrepresented, angry and ever more inclined to be wowed by empty lies. If we don’t commit to small steps, local involvement and a long-game, collective approach, I think we wait for the next huckster, or an economic collapse that will devastate all but the top 1% of the top 1%. Doing something small now > waiting for something big.
It feels like we are not so far removed from a quasi- consensus that our government(s) are legitimate. The simple idea that has been parroted and sold as a self-evident truth, that taxes are bad, that lowering taxes is good, that everyone wins...this was the ultimate sellout of the old, pre-Clinton DP, and the complicity of a purchased and owned SCOTUS.
Clinton obliterated any possibility of the DP ever reclaiming its root issues, so here we are, unrepresented, angry and ever more inclined to be wowed by empty lies. If we don’t commit to small steps, local involvement and a long-game, collective approach, I think we wait for the next huckster, or an economic collapse that will devastate all but the top 1% of the top 1%. Doing something small now > waiting for something big.