The illusion of a DIY society keeps us deluded into thinking we don't need a decent social safety net and keeps us divided by race, class, gender, and politics, so that we don't come together to challenge the kleptocrats who've forced us all into precarity.
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Gwen Snyder is uncivil
The Do Everything Responsibly And Be Okay fantasy and the Prepared Individual fantasy both have a lot of their roots in the invisibility of government.
In some ways they are promises that government has made to the middle class over the years.
In some ways they are promises that government has made to the middle class over the years.
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