The Manchin debacle is a stark, awful reminder that if you want change it’s going to mean getting different people in positions of power who aren’t wealthy or beholden to wealth.
That means getting money out of politics, organizing, and fundamentally changing things.
That means getting money out of politics, organizing, and fundamentally changing things.
What you have now is a monopoly of power by the wealthy, who absolutely control our political processes and ensure nothing can be done to actually help anyone besides themselves.
This is an intentional and relentless strategy. And it has succeeded wildly.
This is an intentional and relentless strategy. And it has succeeded wildly.
You cannot expect a government populated by wealthy people to march into the legislature and vote to compromise their interests. Everything depends on completely paralyzing government as a means of public good. Everything.
That has to change. It has to.
That has to change. It has to.
The Republican Party is an authoritarian death cult and a legitimate threat. But government as a whole has been coopted by the wealthy.
To address that fascistic problem, you have to break that stranglehold because wealthy simply will not budge on pursuing its own interests.
To address that fascistic problem, you have to break that stranglehold because wealthy simply will not budge on pursuing its own interests.
It’s not just Manchin. He takes the blame because it empowers him. There are so many others who believe government should not help its people but serve solely as a support system for wealth.
Until that is broken this disgusting cycle is only going to continue and worsen.
Until that is broken this disgusting cycle is only going to continue and worsen.
We have to reject politics as spectacle, move beyond believing these figures are messiahs or saviors, and agitate for reform and the exorcism of money in politics until we can replace this wealth class of neoliberals with something actually representative.
This system is constructed, explicitly, on a racist, sexist aristocracy that combats reform at every turn. But democratic upswells have worked to change it in the past. We need another one of those movements and we need it bad, bad, bad.
Here’s something on what the situation is and how we got here. The dismantling of government as a public good was a long and successful plan to prioritize wealth and defang democracy.
That’s what they’ve done and what we must undo.
jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/the-best-sen…
That’s what they’ve done and what we must undo.
jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/the-best-sen…
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