Those of us who remember a time when it wasn’t this way have a responsibility to say so. It wasn’t always this way and it doesn’t have to be this way now.
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Or was it always this way; we just know more about it now? Will the future be better, or will the next chapter be one of populist isolationism and universal surveillance under the guise of protection against the threat of climate migrant hordes beyond our borders?
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Replying to @HaythamMatthews
No, it wasn’t always this way. It’s not romanticizing the past to point out that until 1980s there was no assumption that corporate America should run the world. In terms of the future, we all know it could go either way…

May 2, 2020 · 11:53 AM UTC

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Replying to @marwilliamson
I wonder if the rise in corporate influence on our politics was an insidious side effect of forces unleashed by globalization &/or automation (courtesy of the digital revolution) whose consequences we were simply too slow to anticipate & exert control over.