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Between the pandemic, the uprisings, and the gloves-off/mask-off rhetoric of the GOP's white supremacist leaders (and the dog-whistles of the reactionary elements of the Democrats), it's clear that the system is very, very broken, and can't/won't survive in its current form.
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I often return to Leonard Cohen's "Everybody Knows," an anthem for looming rupture:
Everybody knows the war is over
Everybody knows the good guys lost
Everybody knows the fight was fixed
The poor stay poor, the rich get rich
That's how it goes
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Everybody knows the war is over
Everybody knows the good guys lost
Everybody knows the fight was fixed
The poor stay poor, the rich get rich
That's how it goes
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A more specific, incandescent, and contemporary version is @chsm1th's recent essay, "For the Rich to Keep Getting Richer, We Have to Sacrifice Everything Else."
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