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Paul Snyder's avatar

You’ve done great job of articulating points that are difficult to explain without assorted obscenities and spittle being thrown (at least in my case).

My college age daughter and I were discussing the potential for a rebound “empathy enhanced” economic and political model to reclaim some of the soil salted by Musk and Trump’s fascist Ayn Rand-ian snark. I feel that we are well beyond any rhetorical “crossroads” analyses offered by the CNN types. It’s difficult to explain the gravity of the current situation to a generation that has only the absurd reference points of perpetual war, pandemics, and mind altering tech devices to fall back upon. The more I find myself referencing (for her) history in the form of the rise of fascism in pre-war Europe, the internment camps for Japanese Americans, etc., the more I frighten myself with my own arguments.

Thanks again for your efforts, Well done.

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Diana van Eyk's avatar

Joshua, this is what the USA needs, and what the rest of the western world needs. We're all in these hollowed out neoliberal so-called democracies, and until we face this fact and get organized, it's only going to get worse.

I'd like to see us organize on a global scale.

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