This is gorgeous. I want a print of this.

Co-signing this so hard. I love Gregory Maguire's writing and Wicked is one of my favs. (Lost is #1.) No shade to the musical, but it feels like it read Wicked's story about how elites use radicalized victims to retain power and decided it was a story about friendship being magic forever.

Yup, totally agreed. Clinton saw that the country was right-leaning and so he moved the Democratic party to the right to win politically. I'd argue the end result is pretty terrible and why it's proving so hard to get career Dems to move away from reactionary centrism that is just conservatism-lite.

Clinton made life worse for immigrants, but he didn't criminalize immigration any more than you or I are actively supporting a military invasion just because we paid our taxes. We can't say that we're mad about misinformation and then engage in sloppy broad-strokes generalizing ourselves.

I'm sorry, but I don't agree. Details matter. These things are complex and understanding them is important. We can recognize that Clinton, supposedly one of the "good guys," caused harm without dumbing down the issue just because doing so makes us feel less conflicted.

So I agree with you that Dems have historically favored the status quo far more than disruption, which benefits the wealthy and the powerful more than anyone else. But I disagree that fascism is what is at play, the recent techno-fascism like Musk and Thiel are trying to enact notwithstanding.