Well, at least you are taking some ownership.
Anyone under the age of fifty or so was fed such a pile of shit regarding economics that it’s no wonder any of us want anything to do with Ronald Reagan conservatism or economics. The invisible hand of the market is going to save us? All we have seen is the visible hand of greed making sure we are smothered in education debt, held out of the market, prevented from accessing healthcare, emburdened with the specter of $50 trillion in national debt, held responsible for the environmental mistakes of our greedy forebears….all to meet the expectations of a generation of people who stopped reinvesting in the nation because anything other than personal wealth accumulation was “socialism”.
WHY THE FUCK WOULD ANYONE BELIEVE THAT AMERICAN CAPITALISM WAS AN ANSWER?
Shitty jobs, shitty roads, shitty cities, shitty healthcare, shitty air quality, shitty power bills, shitty public transportation, shitty drug policies, shitty incarceration rates, shitty presidents, shitty schools, shitty fiscal policy, shitty….everything that matters in the day to day lives of people. We cling to “freedom” as if it paid the bills. We hang our hats on “liberty” but see that for far too long the liberty most enjoyed was the right of the wealthy to avoid doing ANYTHING, including paying taxes, that might have lifted society as a whole….because, you, know, socialism.
We don’t have capitalism in this country…and we have an increasingly large group of our population who understand that and are willing to explore alternatives that offer a chance to forcibly push the immense wealth of our economy out of the hands of the oligarchy. The vast majority of Amazon employees can’t afford an overseas vacation. Not because Jeff Bezos is a philanthropist who has set up endowments to fund education at the finest universities. Not so that Bezos can create a network of public health clinics in Washington state. Not because Bezos is buying up huge swaths of land to create publicly owned National wildlands, managed for the common good. Not because Bezos is developing high speed rail service, or funding mental health care initiatives or doing literally anything other than gathering wealth for Jeff Bezos. And renting Venice for his wedding.
So fuck whatever this is that boomers and republitards still insist on calling capitalism. Fuck working for $10 an hour. Fuck pharmaceutical overlords who create and profit from drug pandemics. Fuck living in slums because the local zoning board is only interested in high profit development. Fuck tax dodging clowns like Bezos and Musk and Trump and Zuckerberg and anyone named Koch or Walton. Fuck anyone who thinks we should sell public land to pay down boomer debt. Fuck waiting for market forces in a market that isn’t close to free.
And for fucks sake, stop pretending that whatever this economic system is offers the next generation freedom and liberty.
