Thread by @l78lancer

OBSERBVATION:

Big businesses with lobbying and donor capacity are doing whatever they hell they want, are open are largely not implementing let alone enforcing #COVID19 safety provisions, and have access to government support.

What logic is behind small businesses being forced to close for safety reasons when malls are not had have virtually no restrictions? What makes malls more safe or less threatening from health perspectives?

Or maybe the question should be what makes malls more economically important and sacred that other businesses.

And it's not just malls, so I'm not picking on them. Large national chain stores, department stores, restaurants, etc., are proceeding much the same way.

Whereas, small businesses which perform virtually the identical services are being existentially threatened. And not withstanding a vaccine on the horizon, as we see, the pandemic is getting worse, not better.

And speaking of vaccines, its existence seems to have given politicians and big businesses license to suspend any and all rational thinking, public policy development and implementation, or any sense of protecting the public's health under the pretense of preserving civil liberty

Small businesses are getting crushed out of existence, and employees and workers across America along with them.

The process or lack of process is chaos. Some if the damage is thoughtless and negligent.

Some of it is deliberate and malevolent. All of it is malevolence and malfeasance on the part of America's trustees and fiduciaries, and is resulting in economic and political crimes against the people.

The worse thing is while the majority of businesses in America are small, and the biggest employer in America are small businesses, the politicians and political class is pandering and catering to the minority of big businesses mostly in exchange for cash.

It stand to reason then that the thought that America can recover from #COVID19 and the commensurate economic catastrophe while decimating small businesses across the country, economically exterminating workers, causing homelessness and...

...starvation and without implementing some sort of universal recover and safety policies is simply backward and asinine.

This more accurately and extremely points to the concern of republican and democratic policies to keep their own jobs than to stand up for the jobs of the voters. Political weakness, selfishness, stupidity and cowardice are uniform.

For as much as people in America pretend to believe in and support the capitalistic free market based system and laissez faire economics, that belief is a lie. Business in America is based on oligopoly, and the process of winners and losers is taking place at this moment.

These are the same large businesses that have never believed in a living wage for workers.

The notions of opportunity, fairness, the ability to work hard and succeed for worker or small businesses, especially now, is a farce. It's deadly naïve to pretend or believe otherwise.

Just like the process to threaten and execute voting and democracy is a foot, likewise, economic viability and existence is being threatened for millions of small businesses and employees.

But these things are bein snuffed out in slow motion fashion, and America's response is akin to frogs in a water pot slowly being heated.

The reality is the public needs to be out in the streets demanding attention to their needs. Passiveness will allow the damage to be permanent. America needs to be as pissed off and outraged about economic murder as they were about election theft, or we'll never fully recover.

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