Over the course of President Donald Trump’s first 100 days in office, many Americans across the political spectrum have stood by idly waiting to see whether his actions would fulfill his rhetoric.
Wondering what you think about people like Sanders & Reich's (and many others) formulation of needing to be free from oligarchs, which seems altogether necessary. Can't we other the 1%? Or is that like being intolerant of intolerance? There's little mention here of the role of money/wealth in cementing the US as a racialized hierarchy -- which also entraps low-income White people -- via the corruption/dismantling/privatization of the federal government. In addition to understanding these cyclical historical movements towards and away from racism, and understanding that policies alone won't save us, don't we need to look at the role of capital i.e. policies to constrain extreme wealth, the political power wealth affords, and policies to redistribute wealth? At the center of the Civil War/end of chattel slavery, Jim Crow, Reconstruction, and both Trump admins are also battles over finance/markets and who gets to make money and how. Are you saying wealth accumulation is just a means to enact the end goal of racism, and not the other way around? Isn't the "alienation and despair" you refer to of people who turn towards authoritarianism/othering/freedom from as a solution primarily economic, even if they incorrectly ascribe social issues as the cause?
Wondering what you think about people like Sanders & Reich's (and many others) formulation of needing to be free from oligarchs, which seems altogether necessary. Can't we other the 1%? Or is that like being intolerant of intolerance? There's little mention here of the role of money/wealth in cementing the US as a racialized hierarchy -- which also entraps low-income White people -- via the corruption/dismantling/privatization of the federal government. In addition to understanding these cyclical historical movements towards and away from racism, and understanding that policies alone won't save us, don't we need to look at the role of capital i.e. policies to constrain extreme wealth, the political power wealth affords, and policies to redistribute wealth? At the center of the Civil War/end of chattel slavery, Jim Crow, Reconstruction, and both Trump admins are also battles over finance/markets and who gets to make money and how. Are you saying wealth accumulation is just a means to enact the end goal of racism, and not the other way around? Isn't the "alienation and despair" you refer to of people who turn towards authoritarianism/othering/freedom from as a solution primarily economic, even if they incorrectly ascribe social issues as the cause?