made worse by a media whose only job is to reinforce the narrative that money is a scarce commodity.
But let's keep going. Change is a long-term term project. Even though time may not be on our side, we owe it to future generations to try.

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self-interest, greed, and corporate profits drive public policy from spending to taxation and legislation. And people suffer as a result.
Let's not be under any illusions. Challenging the lies is a thankless, endless task in a time of global instability and climate crisis,..../

inexplicably runs dry. Growth, they say, what we need is growth to raise taxes to pay for it. But then come unstuck when growth fails to appear, and they scratch their heads, pretend to wonder why and recommend more pain, sacrifice, and cuts. Ideology, predicated on ..../

Repetition. It will work until people start to see the contradictions. Always plenty of money to crank up the war machine and stuff into corporate profits, but when it's a question of serving public purpose, all the vital services that support people, the money to do it .../

the logic is to create winners from losers through speculative betting, without any necessary correspondence to societal well-being being evident, can somehow fund a viable degrowth strategy is delusional."

has managed to maintain the primacy of political power over economic power and which in turn has avoided creating a parasitic financial oligarchy such as the one that currently controls the politics of the capitalist West."