The wealthy and powerful spent decades and billions destroying government as a public good and eradicating trust between Americans.

It’s no accident we have bought-off representatives, a violently divided citizenry, and a hapless infrastructure incapable of fighting a pandemic.

Reckless, thoughtless, humanless greed got us here. A society cannot function like this and America is sprinting headlong into decline and fascism because the wealthy have coopted everything. This always, always, always leads to disaster.

The wealthy undermined experts until we were lost in fascistic conspiracies, hollowed out our infrastructure and industry, imprisoned us for profit and kept us dependent using debt and insecurity, and captured our government and turned it into a wealth redistribution center.

If you want a way out of this cruel nightmare, start to loosen the grip of the obscenely wealthy on the apparatus of government and society. We’ve seen this can be done here and elsewhere. And it has to be done before they plunge us into yet another crisis.