Thread by @JYSexton

The sad but disturbing truth is that what we’re seeing in Texas, this senseless awful tragedy, isn’t an aberration or a freak accident.

The wealthy and powerful have spent decades dismantling government as a public good, and it’s only going to get worse.

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The problem of our time is that we are living in the awful consequences of one terrible, self-serving decision by the wealthy and powerful after another.

Climate catastrophe, crumbling infrastructure, political instability and impotence. All of it a glaring, bleeding consequence

With Ted Cruz and his disgusting decision to leave constituents to die, we see the true nature of what our politics has become. An apparatus of the wealthy and the powerful to become wealthier and more powerful while leaving people to suffer and die.

It does not have to be like this.

We can have a society that works, a society where people have food, shelter, and the basic necessities of life, where politics isn’t a grotesque spectacle that entertains but ultimately leaves us powerless and tragically vulnerable.

The first step is to recognize what has happened, how our government has been bought and sold, and that we deserve better, that this spectacle hides cruel artificial austerity and inhuman cruelty.

The evidence is mounting as we slide into the abyss. We must do better. We must.