For a brief moment at the start of COVID, we saw the government work effectively. We saw UBI, better worker protections, and so on. Then we saw the regressive forces in society, from cops to the corporations they work for, close ranks and put us back into the meat grinder.
max asher millerPeople baffled by why people have remained pessimistic regardless of what the economic data shows never seem to consider that we watched the government flex its muscle to address a crisis and then watched that response crumble in the face of capitalist rapaciousness.