Thread by @davidhogg111

Studying history has made me realize the system isn’t broken it’s doing exactly what it was made to do.

It was never about helping people, it was about making a few men richer and using the 99% as Canon fodder to protect their wealth.

The system only ever helps people when the that wealth is threatened (typically by war) so they need us to buy into the system more- they do so by giving us a tiny amount more of say, money and resources.

But once it’s not threatened they start to take back that power through ridiculously undertaxed capital gains, voter suppression, income stagnation, predatory lending and turning the 99% against each other to divide any threat to the system.

Democracy is not in danger because it has never existed here.

Today MILLIONS of people that can’t vote because mass incarceration and millions who can vote but have no representation because they don’t live in a state.

This is system will not change until all of us realize this.

The only way we’ll get the change needed to stop climate change is if we threaten that entire system on a global scale never seen before.

I’m going to post less about this stuff because an impromptu twitter thread can’t do it justice and I don’t want to spam.

I’ll be writing about this and more offline.