It was supposed to be a gift article. Sorry.

I think the operant word is “current.” Capitalism in 1960 was in the middle of creating the world’s largest middle class while accepting antitrust regulation and 80% top marginal tax rates. This is a values problem: neoliberal capitalism is blind to the public good, and that’s what will kill us.

2) realize that within days of ending the filibuster EVERY SINGLE ONE of Trump’s EO’s would be voted into law, thus ending any hope of SCOTUS overturning most of them? Finally, if the govt does not reopen immediately, every lawmaker from both parties is in real danger of being tarred and feathered.

3) this fight. The first centrist who makes a full-throated commitment to stop this 45-year transfer of wealth from the middle class to the .01% will be lifted up by an unstoppable wave of American voters from both parties, as well as millions who've given up on voting at all.

2) that happen - and those forces are not "capitalism," they are neoliberalism, the unbridled greed and narcissism of people who face no consequences for a complete lack of concern for the public good - then we don't deserve to survive.
So far only the socialists are leading--

5) we are powerless in the face of the narcissism and nihilism of our billionaires and corporate leaders, especially as they wield the weapon of AI against our own workforce, America will surely be lost.

4) a greater truth: the captains of industry from 1946-1970 had all either fought in the war or helped run it. They had internalized the need to put the country's needs over their own. Such concern for the Public Good is the opposite of neoliberalism. If we continue to believe--

3) the socialists - are incapable of mounting a true reform movement that would restore American capitalism to what it accomplished during its "Golden Age" post WWII. Many say that period existed only because America lacked foreign competition, but they ignore--

2) destroyed by big tech's algorithms, private equity's destruction of the housing market, corporate lobbyists' control over our government, and the ideological cages of both parties. And just as amazing that all the faux-populists in those parties - the America Firsters and--

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