Sometimes you still hear that society is polarized and we need to move towards the middle.
Pretty messed up considering how everything’s moved towards the right
these past forty years, further than I ever would’ve imagined.
Increased corruption
Increased wealth gaps
Persecution of minorities
Genocides plural
Backsliding of women’s rights (and against the radical idea that women are people)
Privatization of what was publicly owned
Dismissal of any representation as “woke pandering”
Reckless exploitation of transaction externalities
Climate delayism and increasingly outright denialism even as climate change has killed millions
An internet that has gone from owned by everyone to being walled off by Apple, Alphabet, Amazon and Meta (and their profits off that making them the most powerful entities in Earth’s history)
A scrip system that’s chewing up the planet on an unprecedented scale through “proof of work”
Runaway technological unemployment and concentration of resource ownership
It’s not “polarizing” to want to stand against that.
It’s pretty sickening to see the left following the right wing’s puppy tail towards the bottom of the abyss, “chasing the center voters”. Chasing yesterday’s shadow and tomorrow’s grave.
