Thread by @JYSexton

Today is the premiere of something I’m really proud of: the first episode of the Muckrake Podcast’s A Certain Route To Failure documentary series.

We’re diving deep into how we’ve reached this point of crisis in the America.

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This is the story of how our politics were coopted by the wealthy and powerful, how our economy was perverted into a hypercapitalistic state, our communities destroyed, the GOP into a fascist movement, and how we reached this moment where it feels like there’s no alternative.

We begin in 1979 with Jimmy Carter’s “Malaise Speech,” which warned that America was on “a certain route to failure” unless it changed course. Unfortunately, the Right undermined his message and radically reconfigured our politics and economy while promoting greed and consumption

We’re going to trace how the failure of America to change course, to look beyond greed and corrosive individualism, took us down that road of failure, dismantled government and shared society, and led to this moment of fascistic crisis.

If this episode hits for you, please consider sharing. Our real history isn’t that well-known and if we’re going to fix things we have to understand what’s happened. We have to learn from the past, and we have to do it in a hurry.