1/ Over the last 40 years there has been a massive transfer of wealth into the hands of 1% of Americans. Productivity has gone up but wages have not, as companies have felt justified in ripping off workers as though their lives did not matter.
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2/ The cruel neglect of masses of people’s survival needs during the pandemic has been a natural extension of how the system had been working even before. Incremental change will not fix this. We need a fundamental disruption of the political & economic status quo.
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3/ The election of Biden doesn’t mean the emergency is over. Trump was a symptom, not a cause of the underlying emergency & it is still with us. WH & Congressional Dems will take a quick sharp turn towards economic justice, or fascism will come to America & this time it will stay
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Then you and I better start yelling louder and louder and louder. We don’t have a long window because races in ‘22 are just around the corner.
Jan 2, 2021 · 12:22 PM UTC
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