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A Lot Of People Voted For Trump Because Of The Promises He Made Around Jobs. And So It's A Failed Political Strategy If The Goal Actually Is To Get Trump Impeached. Trump's Not Going To Get Impeached If He's Still Useful To The Republican Party, And The Only Thing That Makes Him Not Useful To The Republican Party Is If His Base Turns On Him. And That's Not Going To Happen Over Russia. That's Going To Happen Over Economic Betrayal. But That's Not Going To Happen If No One Knows That It's Happening.

The Theory Of Economic Shock Therapy Relies In Part On The Roleof Expectations On Feeding An Inflationary Process. Reining In Inflation Requires Not Only Changing Monetary Policy But Also Changing The Behavior Of Consumers, Employers And Workers. The Role Of A Sudden, Jarring Policy Shift Is That It Quickly Alters Expectations, Signaling To The Public That The Rules Of The Game Have Changed Dramatically - Prices Will Not Keep Rising, Nor Will Wages.

Fury Is An Entirely Appropriate Response To A System That Sends Young People To Kill Other Young People In A War That Never Should Have Been Waged. Yet The American Right Is Forever Trying To Pathologise Anger As Something Menacing And Abnormal, Dismissing War Opponents As Hateful And, In The Latest Slur, "wild-eyed". This Is Much Harder To Do When Victims Of Wars Begin To Speak For Themselves: No One Questions The Wildness In The Eyes Of A Mother Or Father Who Has Just Lost A Son Or Daughter, Or The Fury Of A Soldier Who Knows That He Is Being Asked To Kill, And To Die, Needlessly.

Our Problem Is That The Climate Crisis Hatched In Our Laps At A Moment In History When Political And Social Conditions Were Uniquely Hostile To A Problem Of This Nature And Magnitude-that Moment Being The Tail End Of The Go-go '80s, The Blastoff Point For The Crusade To Spread Deregulated Capitalism Around The World. Climate Change Is A Collective Problem Demanding Collective Action The Likes Of Which Humanity Has Never Actually Accomplished. Yet It Entered Mainstream Consciousness In The Midst Of An Ideological War Being Waged On The Very Idea Of The Collective Sphere.

Extreme Violence Has A Way Of Preventing Us From Seeing The Interests It Serves.