One way of putting it: virtually every week since late 2015, something has happened that I would have thought, based on my pre-2015 understanding of US society and culture, would cause mass revulsion and condemnation from leaders in civil society, politics, and business. And they just ... didn't.
If there's a new Constitutional Convention, I don't see why any state should be obligated to remain in the union. We're starting from scratch at that point.
Might as well dissolve the USA, default on our debt, split into three new countries (Pacifica, Heartland, and Seaboard), and move on.
There are so few Democrats that are honest about the need for structural change, and even fewer are able to articulate it clearly.
This should be table stakes for Democrats in 2028.
Corporate media is more compatible with fascism than with equal rights. Equal rights don't make the board of directors into trillionaires.
Nothing says “dying civilization” like gladiator fights at the capitol for the emperor’s amusement.
On a fundamental level, US politics has not made sense to me since 2015. I no longer understand the basic criteria, values, or rules. I don't know why people do things or don't do things, or how people evaluate things. It's profoundly disorienting and alienating. I don't know how else to put it.
Great column on how the existence of a trillionaire Elon Musk demonstrates fundamental flaws in our society - in the antisocial behavior we reward and the atrocities we permit.