Notes, Oligarchs, History

Notes: Activist Picnic Aug. 2nd

Fauci, by retired ER Doc Daniel Barkhuff

Were mistakes made? Not out of context. Some judgments were wrong, public messaging was clumsy. Fauci himself has acknowledged errors in retrospect, and historians will debate individual decisions for decades. … I dunno man, we did the best we could, and, yes, we pissed off a bunch of people who exercised a right to be selfish, without any concern for so many anonymous others who would die.

Disempower The Oligarchy, Prof. Robert Reich

The only way to disempower the oligarchy is for the rest of us to join together and take power back.

This will require a multiracial, multiethnic coalition of working-class, poor and middle-class Americans fighting for democracy and fighting against concentrated wealth, power, and privilege.

We must get big money out of politics. End corporate welfare and crony capitalism. Bust up monopolies. Stop voter suppression. And strengthen the countervailing powers of labor unions, employee-owned corporations, worker cooperatives, state and local banks, and grass-roots politics.

Lying Liars Lie To Each Other Too, Prof. Paul Krugman

This is an administration in which to serve is to abase yourself constantly, rendering fealty to Dear Leader, lying to your colleagues and lying to the American people. And if this administration doesn’t like the official government reports that are detailing the many disasters it has caused, it just quashes them . So the Iran War is just the most visible of many ongoing, self-inflicted disasters perpetrated by this administration. Furthermore, Americans should be prepared for more chaos and mendacity, because we are governed by people who, just like Trump, are unwilling to acknowledge the truth.