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HankP's avatar

The only failure of social democracy was in not being able to respond to a well orchestrated and well financed propaganda effort to install a corporate republic that uses authoritarianism, religion and strategic poverty to discipline the masses. Clinton thought co-opting the gentler parts could blunt these conservative efforts and hold off the deluge, Obama thought that breaking the color barrier would help form a new coalition and have knock on effects but they never materialized. Meanwhile we see that the constant upward trend in blood and soil conservatism, forged by the twisted beliefs of the Republican party, have finally found their standard bearer in trump and their sword in the Supreme Court. A court that no longer feels the need for justification or even logical consistency in their edicts.

I wish I saw way out of this, but I don't. The problem at this point in time is that not dealing with actual threatening issues like global warming and ocean acidification will lead to the unmaking of modern civilization and the unneeded deaths of billions. By the time we have the heads of the fascists and the malevolent wealthy on pikes it will be too late.

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Tim Barker's avatar

The rave reviews of Gerstle's new book make me wonder how closely anyone has actually read it https://ourtime.substack.com/p/20-errors-in-gary-gerstles-rise-and

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