parliamentary systems, and governments that can get dissolved at the moment they lose popular support, are a way to improve this "lie then smash-and-grab" style of governance.

Appreciate this. I frequently use the top 10% account for 1/2 of consumption estimate. Is there a quick explanation for the discrepancy?

I’m going to drive to a rally. I’ll pick you and and then drop you back at home. I’ll have food and drinks in the car.

What good will that do? It’s hopeless

Why is this so hard to understand? People are not illegal. Well put.

Wish I could repost this a million times. And I love the metaphor. Organizing is the power that can counter the gravitational force of the ruling class.

Without an organized and significant in number engaged base, he will feel the gravitational pull of the ruling class. Electoral politics in the US is for too many, the election/voting & then going home. I worry about that in this instance.

Add the fact the GOP in HR 1 took dead aim at the healthcare sector, it all seems like willful destruction of parts of the economic system that work for people.

Further props for going on record with the stagflation call.

Ok. Props for going on record with the prediction. But in fairness, given the state of things, that call was like shooting fish in a barrel.