Thank you, exactly. This is why I can’t hear another “people need to wake up” as some vague impossible call to action. We need the practical stuff, the every day and the big picture.

Sold!

I’m just not ready to accept this reality

Uh what?! I want a book and a movie and a miniseries !

It’s astonishing and scary to watch because generally when Trump meets resistance he eventually moves on — he doesn’t want to be seen taking the L. He tests the fences and goes away. Instead here, he tests the fences and they just… take the fences down for him.

under capitalism, the primary power we have against corporations is as consumers

when they get so big that they don’t actually need to worry about consumers, they can effectively function like kings. totally indifferent to our anger because our individual dollars don’t add up to enough to care