A more likely reason is that Trump's biggest donors are the 'drill-baby-drill oil billionaires. Most U.S. oil was discovered on former slave plantations and they don't want us to know that. These guys didn't just go away after the civil war. Shell Oil, Amoco, so many others... https://bit.ly/40Mkxh8
They'll do the same to the sick and elderly. Cut assistance, force them into poverty, label them parasites, dehumanize them and when they start dying, no one will care. Medicare and Medicare attrition through death.
There already was a test run on that with COVID and a very uncomfortable majority of this country has been just fine with it. A lot more sick and vulnerable now due to the let-it-rip strategy of both administrations.
Oh wow it’s you! I will admit I haven’t read too much of your work, but you left an impression on me back in 2017 when stumbled upon your website unintentionally, you articulated something I had always felt in the perfect way ——
“When wealth is passed off as merit, bad luck is seen as bad character. This is how ideologues justify punishing the sick and the poor. But poverty is neither a crime nor a character flaw. Stigmatise those who let people die, not those who struggle to live.” https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2013/10/4/a-government-shutdown-a-social-breakdown/
Yeah I have mostly read you in opinion pieces in various publications, I don’t think I ever realized this was from a book. I’ll have to buy a copy when I get paid and I see you got a new one coming too so I’ll have to check that out as well! Makes sense this would resonate so much, I’m an Arkansan
I despise 3 types of people the most: ths who become arrogant & brutal whn they gain power, ths who pretend to know what they don't, ths who bully the weak. Trump & his team embody all three.
They don't dare to challenge Putin or Xi, yet brazenly bully Zelensky & Trudeau, which is truly despicable.
Beautiful and powerful writing. I was delighted to read that you are a synesthete. I am too. Your words have coloured and musical meaning, layers, for me too. These are what I focus on right now. No one can take them away from us.
I call the MAGAts i.e the White Christo Fascists, not colonizers, but the former "The PLANTATIONISTS". Not happy ruling & controlling over black slave people's bodies anymore, they want to control & rule over EVERY BODY'S body's--women & their private parts inc. They want a new Civil War.
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It's described as The Mythic Past in "how fascism works" book below.
It's a critical feature of fascism.
https://myferretsatepepethefrog.blogspot.com/2025/02/murder-publicans-left-behind-is-lie-v.html
https://myferretsatepepethefrog.blogspot.com/2025/02/murder-publicans-left-behind-is-lie-v.html
here is one for you
https://rickey125.substack.com/p/if-you-believe-that-then-i-have-a
Civil Resistance Guide;
https://www.nonviolent-conflict.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/The-Path-of-Most-Resistance-Second-Edition.pdf
Why it works;
Erica Chenoweth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-JPdSs7_4I&list=WL
https://vimeo.com/1059165108
They don't dare to challenge Putin or Xi, yet brazenly bully Zelensky & Trudeau, which is truly despicable.