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Jared Yates Sexton @JYSexton
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Government needs constant reminding it is a representation of the interest of the people, not an enterprise to enrich or empower itself.
This iteration of government is beholden to corporations and special interests. Displays of protest and mass assembly are the antidote and the only thing that can remind the body of power and the media that cover it how this should work.
An overwhelming majority of Americans oppose this frenzied culture of death that’s being maintained by the NRA and its pet political party. It’s time to remind them who their actual employers are.
This decaying system of government only works as long as the people don’t show up, as long as apathy is widespread and oppressive. The people win every time they show up.
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The sum is greater than the parts. We’re in a defining, real crisis. It’s not the day do day lies or the controversy of the moment. This is a precipice and it’s time to talk about the possible consequences.
To survive this crisis we need to change everything about the way we view reporting, media, history, and our very concept of society. It’s all broken and we have to change and in a hurry.
This crisis with Trump is the end result of a decay and a problem. We can’t fix this without going deeper and thinking deeper. Otherwise we’re just deepening the hole.
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We suffer from a severe lack of societal imagination as to how things could be better. It means the past and future were inevitable and the track we’re on, no matter how dangerous and unfair, is fixed and inescapable.
There’s an entire industry dedicated to limiting that imagination and it operates everywhere. Politics. Industry. Every facet of society. And that business of derailing change is the largest and most profitable of them all.
At its heart is a really disingenuous alchemy that transforms arbitrary and created structures and narratives into laws of nature. Those that perform that trick are capable of wielding it to their advantage while also working outside of its lines.
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It feels so much better knowing Paul Ryan isn’t a part of the government. Like, so much better.
History is going to be incredibly unkind to Ryan, who’ll be judged for his cruelty and capitulation to Trump. He’ll be the face of a Republican Party that sold out completely and still failed to achieve.
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