accountability for the elites
If America doesn’t impose real consequences on corporations and billionaires for enabling fascism, this moment will be absorbed into the neoliberal playbook—studied, normalized, and replicated. There must be a material cost. Entire sectors of the economy should be made public in response to the actions being taken right now. Healthcare and higher education are where I’d start. Without accountability, our future becomes a testing ground for totalitarianism—where every authoritarian impulse is refined for profit and control. So long as the wealthy fear no threat to their dragon hoards, they will continue to fund and tolerate the conditions that breed demagogues. If democracy is to mean anything, it must come with consequences for those who gamble with its survival. If you dont make a meaner monster for our economic kings and queens to fear, then you will never see security and change. If you do not punish systems for drifting towards fascism, then it becomes part of the viable business m...