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1/ This is a fascinating long-read article based on a book Winners Take All. I recommend the article to all the progressives and Democrats unsheathing their knives and getting ready to cut out the hearts and slit the throats of anyone who says anything about their favorite
2/ candidate or fandidate. The article examines the fundamental economic inequality in society and the planet and asks who is going to do the change? The self-serving, self-protecting elites who have brought us to this mess, or, a government under democratic control responsibile
3/ to the people? The people know the system is rigged, he writes. So the basic question is, how are we going to unrig it and save ourselves? So, even with your knives out, and some of you threatening to strike us (me?) with a broadsword, let's measure the candidates against
4/ some progressive standards? Is the candidate willing to challenge the political-economic elites--yeah, he mentions Bill Clinton by name--with their eyewash, give-back reforms, or, call for reforms that alters the balance of power, the social correlation of forces?
5/ The new elite’s phoney crusade to save the world – without changing anything theguardian.com/news/2019/jan/…
@threadreaderapp unroll grazie mille
