This is as dispiriting a thread as one could imagine because it's insightful and accurate. The failure of everyone - our institutions, our political parties, our economy, and our citizens in aggregate (but not, miraculously, in some locales where the resistance has been ferocious) - is manifest.
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog: pluralistic.net/2026/07/22/t... 2/