Whose Economic Game Do We, THE PEOPLE, Want to Play?
The results are in. So now this story is a "how the American Robber Barons' propaganda campaign worked way too fucking well in 2024" story. However, the question in the title of this book must still be asked every day until we can no longer speak.
Should our country be run by a kleptocratic government filled with rapacious pyramid schemers who ...
- are determined to kill our unions
- determined to dramatically increase the cost of living for 99% of our interdependent team (so they can extract and hoard all of those "winnings")
- determined to eradicate public education
- determined to eradicate our shared knowledge about reality itself
- determined to turn their hate for everybody who isn't a compliant sycophant into national policy
- determined to rig our courts and our entire judicial system to favor that hateful and kleptocratic policy agenda
- determined to make free labor "great again" and build concentration camps for the non-compliant (concentration camps that are owned by their buddies from the yacht club who own the private prison industry)
- determined to eradicate our robust infectious disease prevention apparatus (because there is big money to be made in the horse de-wormer/RFK Jr. "pharmacy" business)
- determined to turn the most lethal military that the world has ever known into allies with the most brutal dictators on earth (because the assholes behind the mob-like extract and hoard business model always align until they have power and then can start trying to stab each other in the back and then do more extracting and hoarding)
- and, most importantly, determined to deliver the next mass extinction on earth by going all in on the booming business of dead dinosaur fuel?!?
YES! SOUNDS LIKE FUN!
- The United States of America, January 5th, 2024
BOOK PREVIEW
Millions of really good people voted for MAGA 2.0. There are many reasons for this, but the topic in the first four chapters of this book (Rupert Murdoch's business model) will be the primary reason.
FYI, I wrote about the future of our country in a MAGA 2.0 regime here. Here too. Here too.
The day after our failed test, I wrote about the results here (which included the rant that I pasted above this preview).
A quick summary of that post:
Far too many of our American teammates were like ...
"Should we live in a country that hates women, hates all non-white-male humans, eradicates public education, dramatically increases the cost of living, eradicates our robust infectious disease prevention apparatus, and is locked inside a national pyramid scheme? Sounds like fun!"
I won't have a good chance of changing the minds of those folks with this book or anything else I could possibly write.
But for the rest of you, this book is about helping our interdependent team with the ongoing battle.
The title is far more significant than any one election. This is a question that we must keep asking of one another. We, THE PEOPLE, failed this test in 2024. But it remains a question that must be asked as long as we are lucky enough to be aboard this miraculous pale blue spaceship.
This is a question that must be asked in board meetings in our schools, towns, and cities.
This is a question that must be asked in our union meetings.
This is a question that must be asked as we talk about forming new unions.
No matter what, the topics in this book are macro-sized and will take years, and often decades, to solve. I mean, we aren't going to kill the business models of propaganda outlets like Fox News overnight.
But that mission is part of this book and this website's greater mission.
PUBLISHING DATE? NOT SURE.
After we failed this test in the title of this book in 2024, I have to change the tone in far too much of this story.