Thread by @docrussjackson

Another ESSENTIAL listen from @gaslitnation.

The parallels with the UK - also reeling from forty years of #neoliberalism - are uncanny, & very concerning.

A Govt of corrupt millionaire bankers & lobbyists dividing voters & representing the interests of the grotesquely wealthy.

https://twitter.com/gaslitnation/status/1369632738614140929

'We shouldn't have an economy & a democracy dependent on oligarchs being benevolent... countries that have strong social safety nets also have high levels of happiness, they have high levels of education (because university & HE are free), & they have low levels of corruption.'

'We need to push for greater equality & fairness in our economy, because it translates to greater equality & fairness in our democracy. America is a far-right country - we have our systems so skewed towards benefiting a minority slave-owning, property-owning class'.

'The power structure is skewed, & we're still dealing with the fallout of the Reagan revolution, which sold everybody on the #gaslighting of trickle-down economics, that the more wealth that the top makes, the more comes down to us bottom feeders, which simply isn't true.'

'The Reagan revolution got rid of the Fairness Doctrine (impartiality) which exploded the far-right #propaganda machine in America, which is trying to continue to gaslight people into thinking everything is fine. As a result, you get Republicans voting against the Rescue Plan.'

'Diana's boyfriend, Dodi Fayed, was Jamal Khashoggi's cousin - the murdered journalist, who was also the cousin of Adnan Khashoggi, who was a key player in the inner criminal circle of Robert Maxwell, Donald Trump, & a variety of people involved in transnational organized crime'.

'The fact Prince Charles stopped taking his son's calls when his son became a father for the first time, that breaks my heart. I don't care how much money & power you have in the world, your happiness & sense of self comes down to love.'