What Democ­ra­cy’ Is Under Attack? Notes From The Edge Of The Nar­ra­tive Matrix

Right­ists suck at con­spir­a­cy analy­sis because their world­view requires an elite cabal plan­ning and orches­trat­ing all evil dynam­ics, where­as left­ists under­stand that many (though not all) of those dynam­ics will unfold on their own in a sys­tem where human behav­ior is dri­ven by prof­it-seek­ing. In sit­u­a­tions where you are ide­o­log­i­cal­ly pro­hib­it­ed from blam­ing the obvi­ous cul­prit cap­i­tal­ism, you’ll come up with all kinds of oth­er wacky explanations.

Cap­i­tal­ism is at the core of the rot con­sum­ing the US. A bold social­ist agen­da would help us heal the plan­et and offer every­one a life of dignity.