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True, @dansinker, and and there’s nothing more indicative of how widespread that desperation is then how widespread the glee is over what this guy did.
https://omfg.town/@dansinker/113625546983476414
It’s not that there haven’t always been people who are desperate and suffering. It’s not that there hasn’t always been rage at CEOs and health insurance companies. But it feels like we are in uncharted territory now.
I'm not sure that’s all entirely a bad thing. Folks have been sleepwalking; we’ve been waiting for someone to come save us. The optimist in me says maybe we have a chance to shed that. The resigned pragmatist in me says maybe societal destabilization is the only way to end oligarchy.
But I'm not sure it’s all entirely a good thing either. Conditions now feel ripe for demagoguery, savior-seeking, witch-burning, all kinds of ugliness. Trump was elected on this same unmoored desperation.
Yeah, exactly, what @jenniferplusplus says:
https://hachyderm.io/@jenniferplusplus/113625826810512509
Our leaders, our free press, our laws, the rule of law itself, the political process, the electorate itself, community, hard work, decency, tolerance, patience, what have you: all the things that are •supposed• to protect us, •supposed• to bend the arc of the universe toward justice, all have failed.
What happens when people truly believe that nobody and nothing is coming to save them? We’re about to find out.
@inthehands it's not the only way, and definitely not the best way, but it is the way of last resort. And all of America's power centers have been fighting ruthlessly to close off all the other ways for years.
@jenniferplusplus @inthehands I grew up thinking the point of democracy was to make it possible to change without violence. But they’ve been undermining that possibility my entire life and then some. I’m not going to cheer for the murder of a parasitic CEO, even one who clearly contributed to killing at least hundreds of thousands of policyholders, but I don’t see how the semblance that remains of our democracy could recover to where it would protect us from that CEO
@ShadSterling @jenniferplusplus @inthehands
Despite what we keep being told, here are some charts that may give an indication as to why people may not be happy with the status quo:
@inthehands @jenniferplusplus There's no mystery, we know exactly what happens: Violent revolt. Unless something radically changes pretty soon, it's just a question of when.
Fear of revolt was always the only thing that kept power in check. We need the Powers That Be
to be afraid that the next CEO killer could be the spark that ignites an explosion.