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American businesses and the Republican Party made a gamble that profiting excessively at the expense of the people and their health would pay off.

What we're watching is that bet fail in the most deadly of ways.

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The entirety of the American economy was designed around the concept of benefiting the wealthy and powerful while ensuring workers get paid little and are denied the most basic and humane healthcare.

It is a perfect recipe for a societal-threatening pandemic.
Watching the economy crater now, it's obvious what a terrible and cruel bet this whole thing was. Obscene, accelerated profit was given more important than human lives. It was always doomed to failed. Always.
Make no mistake about it. This economy was designed to be cruel and designed to put people at risk. Starting with Reagan in the 1980's, the point was always this vast divide in the name of obscene hypercapitalism.

Now, this pandemic makes that cruelty startlingly obvious.
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Jared Yates Sexton
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The authoritarian cycle is happening before our very eyes. Trump is failing and hiding his failures behind conspiracies and enemies.

Today he said liberals are working with China to aid propaganda and enable deaths from the pandemic.

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OANN is pushing a conspiracy narrative that Trump just threw gasoline on. It'll grow, he'll repeat it, and it'll move directly to Fox News. That's how this works. And he's going to blame all of this on liberals, China, and immigrants.

He will happily sacrifice lives.
I keep telling people because it needs said. This is a cycle. It's predictive. It's played out in one society after another. You can set your watch by it.

Trump is an authoritarian and we are spiraling out of control. You have to recognize it, you have to understand it.
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Jared Yates Sexton
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The myths we've been told about authoritarianism and fascism have allowed it to grow here in America.

Authoritarians are inherently insecure, obviously incompetent, enabled by corporations and biased media, and can take hold anywhere and at any time.

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The American myth many of us were raised on, this story of history as proof of exceptionalism and framing America as protagonist, hides the truth: we've been a hotbed of fascism and have enabled fascism around the world.

We have to start unknotting truth from fiction in a hurry.
These fictions have allowed fascist movements to grow and gain power in the United States because we're in denial about our history and our present. People are in denial of where we come from and what is possible in this country.

Unfortunately, we're getting a crash course.
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The racist scapegoating of the Chinese is building anger and is going to lead to violence. Using prejudices and fear to hide failures is the hallmark of an authoritarian regime, and it almost always ends in blood and ruin.
Authoritarians create crises through their incompetence and lust for power. Those crises are tinged with the cultural rage that have them power to begin with. That rage is stoked when their mistakes grow too large to hide. Authoritarians like Trump are happy to endanger lives.
I cannot stress this enough. This isn’t just racism. It’s authoritarian maneuvering. Every day now is going to bring new attacks, new vilification. This is leading somewhere. Stop being surprised by Trump. Stop being surprised by Republicans. See where this is going.
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